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The programmer and the scholar: A conversation

Author(s) -

Willard McCarty

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

studia universitatis babeș-bolyai digitalia

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2559-6721

DOI - 10.24193/subbdigitalia.2017.2.01

Subject(s) - conversation , ethnography , vignette , digital humanities , work (physics) , sociology , media studies , aesthetics , humanities , art , psychology , anthropology , engineering , social psychology , communication , mechanical engineering

The prospects of a new centre for digital humanities brings to mind those once prominent centres that have disappeared, hence the question of what they did or did not do that would have made the difference. Here I suggest that they failed for lack of an intellectual agenda. Drawing from the early history of digital humanities, an ethnographic vignette of my own research, close attention to the machinery of computing and work in the history of the physical sciences, I suggest a beginning to such an agenda.

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