What's going on?

Here I survey activities in the digital humanities as a primary source for our conceptualization of the field. I argue for the fundamental nature of modelling to these humanities and describe three varieties: analytical, synthetic and improvisational. I argue that these three kinds are distributed u...

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Published in:Literary & Linguistic Computing Vol. 23; no. 3; pp. 253 - 262
Main Author: McCarty, Willard
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Sep2008
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        Information modeling
        Academic workload of students
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        Social structure
        Computer systems
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