Jones Roberto Busa, S. J., and the Emergence of Humanities Computing

The Priest and the Punched Cards
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-28654-7
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 194 Seiten

It’s the founding myth of humanities computing and digital humanities: In 1949, the Italian Jesuit scholar, Roberto Busa, S.J., persuaded IBM to offer technical and financial support for the mechanized creation of a massive lemmatized concordance to the works of St. Thomas Aquinas. Using Busa’s own papers, recently accessioned in Milan, as well as IBM archives and other sources, Jones illuminates this DH origin story. He examines relationships between the layers of hardware, software, human agents, culture and history and answers the question of how specific technologies afford and even constrain cultural practices, including in this case the academic research agendas of humanities computing and, later, digital humanities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jones, Steven E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Roberto Busa, S.J., and the Emergence of Humanities Computing. Chapter 1. Priest Walks Into the C.E.O.’s Office. Chapter 2. Oracle on 57th Street. Chapter 3. The Mother of All Humanities Computing Demos. Chapter 4. Centers of Activity. Chapter 5. Computing Philology.

Über Autor(innen)

Steven E. Jones is Professor of English and Director of the Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities at Loyola University Chicago. He was a Distinguished Visitng Fellow at the CUNY Graduate Center Advanced Research Consortium in 2014-2015 and a recipient of the Keats-Shelley Association Distinguished Scholar award in 2013. His most recent book, The Emergence of the Digital Humanities, highlights his specialties in textual studies and digital humanities.