Docente
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MARRAS CRISTINA
(programma)
The course addresses the interdisciplinarity emerging from the ongoing dialogue between philosophy and new technologies. In this context what is the contribution of philosophy to the community of Digital Humanities (DH) practices and viceversa? How the way of doing research and studying philosophy changed with the digital? What are the current ongoing digital projects and tools specifically dedicated and tailored for philosophy? Given the complexity of this context it is certainly useful to reflect on the permeable perimeters that “philosophers” and “digital humanists” trace through their interactions, and what critical tools emerge to understand the current techno-social system.
Like the other humanistic disciplines, philosophy has also gone through the evolution of information technology for research, but scholars seem to mostly use technology as a mere support for research. Digital technology, in particular, is used mainly for reading and writing and is “relegated” to facilitating access to archives (repository) and opac, to allow more immediate possibility of publication and dissemination of research results.
The course is organized into two interrelated parts:
1. Introduction to digital humanities and digital tools for research (information literacy). The question is how to conceptualize and thematize the heuristics contained in the relation between philosophy and computational practices. Wiki and open web platforms, text encoding, timeline, text visualization will be used to practical experience (case study) the relationship between philosophy and computer science that passes through a shared and open conceptualization effort, content construction and negotiation.
2. The heuristic and cognitive role that conceptual (metaphorical) models assume in structuring knowledge. Groundwork from philosophy, history and linguistics will be combined with philosophical primary sources and media studies methodologies, in particular, qualitative analysis of documented models of knowledge in philosophy and the history of the humanities sampled from 16-17th century literature will be analyzed. Working primarily in groups (but not only), students will use mapping and network analysis on data/texts to chart interconnections between figures and concepts over time.
Attending students
- A selection of chapters from: Matthew K. Gold, Debates in the Digital Humanities, https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/debates-in-the-digital-humanities updated October 2019)
- a selection of articles from: Arianna Ciula, Øyvind Eide, Cristina Marras & Patrick Sahle (eds.) “Models and Modelling between Digital and Humanities – A Multidisciplinary Perspective”: HSR, suppl. 31, 2018: open access: https://www.gesis.org/hsr/aktuelle-hefte/2018/suppl-31-models-and-modelling-between-digital-and-humanities
- A “course book” edited by the teacher, including a vademecum for the use of digital tools for research, a list of resources and references to guide the development of the case study application, and a selection of articles will be made available in digital format at the beginning of the course.
Non-attending students
- Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth (eds.) 2004. A Companion to Digital Humanities, Oxford, Blackwell: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/
- Arianna Ciula, Øyvind Eide, Cristina Marras & Patrick Sahle (eds.) “Models and Modelling between Digital and Humanities – A Multidisciplinary Perspective”: HSR, suppl. 31, 2018: open access: https://www.gesis.org/hsr/aktuelle-hefte/2018/suppl-31-models-and-modelling-between-digital-and-humanities
- The “course book” (see the program for attending students)
- Luciano Floridi, “Hyperhistory and the Philosophy of Information Policies”, (https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-319-04093-6_12.pdf) in The Onlife Manifesto Being Human in a Hyperconnected Era, L. Floridi (ed.), Springer, 2015.
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