Research Catalog

Title

Information technology and scholarship : applications in the humanities and social sciences / edited by Terry Coppock.

Publication

Oxford : Oxford University Press for the British Academy, ©1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

Coppock, J. T. (John Terence), 1921-

Description

vi, 343 pages : illustrations; 25 cm pbk

Summary

The impact of information technology is reviewed by scholars who are leading pioneers in the application of that technology to research in their disciplines. They discuss whether this impact amounts to a paradigm shift, posing new research themes.

Subject

• Digital humanities
• Social sciences > Data processing
• Learning and scholarship > Technological innovations
• digital humanities
• 10.03 methods, techniques and organization of research in the humanities
• 70.03 methods, techniques and organization of social science research
• Informatietechnologie
• Humaniora
• Sociale wetenschappen
• Onderzoeksmethoden

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Scholarship and information technology / Anthony Kenny. -- Digital philosophical reasoning / Theodore Scaltsas. -- Information technology in archaeology: theory and practice / Stephen J. Shennon, commentary Richard Bradley. -- Computers and the concept of tonality / Alan Marsdan, commentary Ian Cross. -- Cultural history with a computer: measuring dynamics / Jean-Phillipe Genet, commentary Andrew Prescott. -- Information technology and social history: case studies of a subtle paradigm shift / Bob Morris, commentary Steven Smith. -- Simulating the past: SOCSIM and CAMSIM and their applications in family and demography history / Richard Smith, commentary Richard Blundell. -- How much information technology contributed to linguistics? / Karen Spärck Jones, commentary Henry S. Thompson. -- 'Eke out our performance with your mind': reconstructing the theatrical past with the aid of computer simulation / Richard Beacham, commentary Meg Twycross. -- Art history and the digital image / William Vaughan, commentary Eric Fernie.
• The impact of information technology on legal scholarship / Richard Susskind, commentary Neil MacCormick. -- Information technology in the social sciences / Alan Wilson. -- The simulation of social processes / Nigel Gilbert, commentary Anthony Heath. -- Information technology and psychology: from cognitive psychology to cognitive engineering / Anne H. Anderson, commentary Charles Crook. -- Information technology and the development of economic policy: the use of microdata and microsimulation models / Holly Sutherland, commentary Guy Judge. -- The impact of computational tools on time-series econometrics / David F. Hendry and Jurgen A. Doornik. -- Supercomputing in geographical research / Stan Openshaw, commentary Andrew Cliff. -- Social anthropology and information technology / Michael Bravo. -- Preservation and networking in aid of research / Seamus Ross, commentary Edward E. Higgs. -- Overview / Terry Coppock.

ISBN

• 0197262058
• 9780197262054

LCCN

00340758

OCLC

• ocm41420770
• 41420770
• SCSB-1129711

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library