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Digital Humanities
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23 Dec 2020
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Data Lives of Humanities TextThe ‘computational turn’ in the humanities has brought with it several questions and challenges for traditional ways of engaging with the ‘text’ as an object of enquiry. The prevalence of data-driven scholarship in the humanities offers …
18 Dec 2019
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Digital Humanities and New Contexts of Digital Archival Practice in IndiaPuthiya Purayil Sneha attended and presented at a conference on 'The Arts, Knowledge, and Critique in the Digital Age in India: Addressing Challenges in the Digital Humanities' organised by Sahapedia and Department of Liberal Arts, Indian …
1 Nov 2019
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State of the Internet's Languages 2020: Announcing selected contributions!In response to our call for contributions and reflections on ‘Decolonising the Internet’s Languages’ in August, we are delighted to announce that we received 50 submissions, in over 38 languages! We are so overwhelmed and grateful for the …
7 Aug 2019
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Call for Contributions and Reflections: Your experiences in Decolonizing the Internet’s Languages!Whose Knowledge?, the Oxford Internet Institute, and the Centre for Internet and Society are creating a State of the Internet’s Languages report, as baseline research with both numbers and stories, to demonstrate how far we are from making …
26 Jun 2018
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Digital Humanities Alliance of India - Inagural Conference 2018 - Keynote by Puthiya Purayil SnehaThe inaugural conference of the Digital Humanities Alliance of India (DHAI) was held at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore on June 1-2, 2018. The event was co-organised by the IIM and the Indian Institute of Technology, …
25 Jun 2018
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New Contexts and Sites of Humanities Practice in the Digital (Paper)The ubiquitous presence of the ‘digital’ over the couple of decades has brought with it several important changes in interdisciplinary forms of research and knowledge production. Particularly in the arts and humanities, the role of digital …
31 Mar 2018
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Making Humanities in the Digital: Embodiment and Framing in Bichitra and Indiancine.maThe growth of the internet and digital technologies in the last couple of decades, and the emergence of new ‘digital objects’ of enquiry has led to a rethinking of research methods across disciplines as well as innovative modes of creative …
4 Sep 2017
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The Digital Humanities from Father Busa to Edward SnowdenWhat do Edward Snowden, the whistle-blower behind the NSA surveillance revelations, and Father Roberto Busa, an Italian Jesuit, who worked for almost his entire life on Saint Thomas Aquinas, have in common? The simple answer would be: the …
30 Dec 2016
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P.P. Sneha - Mapping Digital Humanities in IndiaIt gives us great pleasure to publish the second title of the CIS Papers series. This report by P.P. Sneha comes out of an extended research project supported by the Kusuma Trust. The study undertook a detailed mapping of digital practices …
30 Jun 2016
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Digital Humanities in India – Concluding ThoughtsAn extended survey of digital initiatives in arts and humanities practices in India was undertaken during the last year. Provocatively called 'mapping digital humanities in India', this enquiry began with the term 'digital humanities' …
19 May 2016
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New Modes and Sites of Humanities PracticeAn extended survey of digital initiatives in arts and humanities practices in India was undertaken during the last year. Provocatively called 'mapping digital humanities in India', this enquiry began with the term 'digital humanities' …
14 Dec 2015
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Living in the Archival MomentAn extended survey of digital initiatives in arts and humanities practices in India was undertaken during the last year. Provocatively called 'mapping digital humanities in India', this enquiry began with the term 'digital humanities' …
7 Dec 2015
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The Infrastructure Turn in the HumanitiesAn extended survey of digital initiatives in arts and humanities practices in India was undertaken during the last year. Provocatively called 'mapping digital humanities in India', this enquiry began with the term 'digital humanities' …
7 Dec 2015
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Reading from a Distance – Data as TextAn extended survey of digital initiatives in arts and humanities practices in India was undertaken during the last year. Provocatively called 'mapping digital humanities in India', this enquiry began with the term 'digital humanities' …
16 Nov 2015
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A Question of Digital HumanitiesAn extended survey of digital initiatives in arts and humanities practices in India was undertaken during the last year. Provocatively called 'mapping digital humanities in India', this enquiry began with the term 'digital humanities' …
12 Nov 2015
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Digital Humanities in India?An extended survey of digital initiatives in arts and humanities practices in India was undertaken during the last year. Provocatively called 'mapping digital humanities in India', this enquiry began with the term 'digital humanities' …
16 Oct 2015
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CIS Featured in 'Building Expertise to Support Digital Scholarship: A Global Perspective' ReportThis report, authored by Vivian Lewis, Lisa Spiro, Xuemao Wang, and Jon E. Cawthorne, sheds light on the expertise required to support a robust and sustainable digital scholarship (DS) program. It focuses first on defining and describing …
22 May 2015
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Making in the Humanities – Some Questions and ConflictsThe following is an abstract for a proposed chapter on 'making' in the humanities, which has been accepted for publication in a volume titled 'Making Humanities Matter'. This is part of a new book series titled 'Debates in the Digital …
30 Nov 2014
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Mapping Digital Humanities in India - Concluding ThoughtsThis final blog post on the mapping exercise undertaken by CIS-RAW summarises some of the key concepts and terms that have emerged as significant in the discourse around Digital Humanities in India.
15 Oct 2014
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Rethinking Conditions of AccessP. P. Sneha explores the possibilities of redefining the idea of access through the channels of education and learning.
19 Aug 2014
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Digital Humanities and the Alt-AcademyThe emergence of Digital Humanities (DH) has been contemporaneous to the ‘crisis’ in the humanities, spurred by changing social and economic conditions which have urged us to rethink traditional methods, locations and concepts of research …
23 Jul 2014
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Reading from a Distance — Data as TextThe advent of new digital technologies and the internet has redefined practices of reading and writing, and the notion of textuality which is a fundamental aspect of humanities research and scholarship. This blog post looks at some of the …
19 Jun 2014
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Living in the Archival MomentThe archive has been and continues to be a key concept in Digital Humanities discourse, particularly in India. The importance of the archive to knowledge production in the Humanities, the implication of changes in archival practice with the …
26 May 2014
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Binary Code Invades the Universal ProblematicThis essay looks at language as an archive and posits, through a reading of Foucault, Derrida, Saussure and Jakobson that the means of perceiving language in the digital has changed. Communication requires community and the large networks …
25 Apr 2014
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Digital Humanities and the Problem of DefinitionThe Digital Humanities as a field that still eludes definition has been the subject of much discourse and writing. This blog post looks at this issue as one of trying to approach the field from a disciplinary lens, and the challenges that …
14 Apr 2014
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The Machinistic Paradigm CollapseLooking at the example of the scientific practices surrounding protein folding study, this blog explores the modern relevance of Thomas Kuhn’s conception of a paradigm. This blog posits that because of the heavy reliance on computational …
14 Apr 2014
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Exploring the Digital Landscape: An OverviewOne component of the Digital Humanities mapping exercise was a series of six research projects commissioned by HEIRA-CSCS, Bangalore over November 2013-March 2014. These studies attempted to chart various aspects of the digital landscape in …
14 Apr 2014
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Confession in the Digital AgeThe pervasive influence of digital technology, particularly the Internet in our lives today seems to have blurred the boundaries between the real and virtual, public and private. The perceived condition of anonymity made available by the …
14 Apr 2014
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Animating the Archive – A Survey of Printed Digitized Materials in Bengali and their Use in Higher EducationWith the advent of digital technologies and the internet, archival practice has seen much change in its imagination and function, such as to extend its scope beyond preservation to a collaborative, open source model which facilitates new …
14 Apr 2014
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‘Doing’ Digital Humanities: Reflections on a project on Online Feminism in IndiaA core concern of Digital Humanities research has been that of method. The existing discourse around the field of DH assumes a move away from traditional humanities and social sciences research methods to more open, collaborative and …