{"id":690,"date":"2004-12-24T11:51:01","date_gmt":"2004-12-24T15:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=690"},"modified":"2006-09-20T17:12:50","modified_gmt":"2006-09-20T21:12:50","slug":"computing-or-humanities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=690","title":{"rendered":"Computing or Humanities?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Humanist, an essay on <a title=\"ACM Ubiquity - Computing or Humanities?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.acm.org\/ubiquity\/views\/v5i41_jessop.html\">Computing or Humanities? The Growth and Development of Humanities Computing<\/a> which mentions what is happening at King&#8217;s and Willard McCarty and Harold Short&#8217;s map of a <a title=\"Map frame\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/humanities\/cch\/allc\/reports\/map\/mapframe.html\">Methodological Commons<\/a>.<br \/>\nI tend to take a very different view where Humanities Computing is not an area of computing methods and tools useful to the humanities, but a discipline that brings humanities inquiry to and through computing. The radical idea I would put forward is that computing (or at least multimedia) is a new discipline of the humanities that draws on traditions of the more established disciplines. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Humanities.Computing.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/notes\/images\/Humanities.Computing.jpg\" width=\"515\" height=\"540\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI have argued this in other contexts like <a title=\"Multimedia, Is it a Discipline?\" href=\"http:\/\/computerphilologie.uni-muenchen.de\/jg02\/rockwell.html\">Multimedia, Is it a Discipline?<\/a> and <a title=\"Is humanities computing an academic discipine?\" href=\"http:\/\/jefferson.village.virginia.edu\/hcs\/rockwell.html\">Is humanities computing an academic discipine?<\/a>. At the end of the day, the movement of ideas in both directions, from and to computing will happen. It is a pity to lose sight of how the arts and humanities bring questions, ideas, theory and craft to computing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Humanist, an essay on Computing or Humanities? The Growth and Development of Humanities Computing which mentions what is happening at King&#8217;s and Willard McCarty and Harold Short&#8217;s map of a Methodological Commons. I tend to take a very different view where Humanities Computing is not an area of computing methods and tools useful to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=690\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Computing or Humanities?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}