{"id":8491,"date":"2019-01-30T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T09:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/?post_type=articles&p=8491"},"modified":"2025-04-15T13:43:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T11:43:49","slug":"digital-transformations-in-the-arts-and-humanities-recording-and-interview","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/articles\/digital-transformations-in-the-arts-and-humanities-recording-and-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Transformations in the Arts and Humanities: recording and interview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\nLecture by Andrew Prescott, Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Glasgow, and exclusive interview for the C\u00b2DH\u2019s \u2018New Horizons\u2019 lecture series.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

On 30 January 2019, the C\u00b2DH launched its new lecture series New Horizons: Confronting the Digital Turn in the Humanities<\/a> with a talk by Andrew Prescott.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrew Prescott describes how the advent of the use of computers by arts and humanities scholars in the 1950s and 1960s created many anxieties about the role of quantification in humanities scholarship, which still persist today. However, the development of digital humanities in recent years has been characterized by the way in which it transcends quantitative methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He portrays how the growth of digital imaging has created a visually rich humanities scholarship which goes beyond text with a wider range of scholars using material culture, sound and film in their work and, above all, how digitization has expanded the range of easily accessible primary sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, Andrew Prescott pictures the difficulties linked to these transformations. Of these, the most pressing is the need to develop critical frameworks which take into account the way in which our digital environment is being manipulated and distorted by commercial and political pressures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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