Transdisciplinarity and digital humanities : lessons learned from developing text-mining tools for textual analysis

Lin, Y 2012, 'Transdisciplinarity and digital humanities : lessons learned from developing text-mining tools for textual analysis' , in: Understanding Digital Humanities , Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, pp. 295-314.

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Abstract

The development and implementation of e-Research tools have signified and signalled a dramatic "computational turn" in conducting research in humanities. Digital humanities has been heralded as the future of humanities research. e-Research programmes often emphasise interdisciplinary and/or multidisciplinary. Although to some extent these existing observations are valid, I will argue in this paper that the kind of digital humanities facilitated by e-Research tools, if widely adopted, is in fact transdisciplinary, a step further than multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary. The realisation of transdisciplinary research can be seen through looking at the process of developing text-mining tools for social and behavioural scientists in the case study to be introduced in this paper. I will discuss the challenges and implications of such transdisciplinary research in light of this case study. The empirical case study provided here also contributes to the ongoing and long-standing discussion about interdisciplinariy and transdisciplinarity.

Item Type:	Book Section
Editors:	Berry, D
Themes:	Media, Digital Technology and the Creative Economy Memory, Text and Place
Schools:	Schools > School of Arts & Media > Arts, Media and Communication Research Centre
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Refereed:	Yes
ISBN:	9780230292642
Depositing User:	Dr. Yu-Wei Lin
Date Deposited:	06 Jan 2012 13:56
Last Modified:	16 Feb 2022 14:02
URI:	https://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/19304

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