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Digital Holocaust Memory, Education and Research

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"This collection is a timely and highly anticipated intervention into research on the new affordances provided by digital technologies in the context of Holocaust commemoration and education. By addressing all aspects of the digital it offers a much needed and carefully curated …

Artificial Intelligence and the Arts: Computational Creativity, Artistic Behavior, and …

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Emotions, creativity, aesthetics, artistic behavior, divergent thoughts, and curiosity are both fundamental to the human experience and instrumental in the development of human-centered artificial intelligence systems that can relate, communicate, and understand human motivation…

Data Visualization in Enlightenment Literature and Culture

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Placed at the intersection of the digital humanities and Enlightenment studies, this collection is an interdisciplinary effort that showcases the significant digital work done in the field of eighteenth-century studies and its potential to transform our disciplinary practices. B…

Digital Techniques for Heritage Presentation and Preservation

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This book describes various new computer based approaches which can be exploited for the (digital) reconstruction, recognition, restoration, presentation and classification of digital heritage. They are based on applications of virtual reality, augmented reality and artificial i…

Speech Etiquette in Slavic Online Communities

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"The monograph clearly demonstrates how speech etiquette in online communication adapts to the technological conditions of virtual communication. The ways and forms of supporting verbal interaction depend on the socio-cultural and ethno-specific communicative experience of the g…

Let's Calculate Bach: Applying Information Theory and Statistics to Num…

by Shepherd, Alan

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This book shows how information theory, probability, statistics, mathematics and personal computers can be applied to the exploration of numbers and proportions in music. It brings the methods of scientific and quantitative thinking to questions like: What are the ways of encodi…

The politics of method in the human sciences: positivism and its epistemological others

fromPolitics, history, and culture

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Offers a comparative assessment of the variations of positivism & alternative epistemologies in the contemporary human sciences. Often declared obsolete, positivism is alive & well in a number of fields, while in others its influence is significantly diminished.

The politics of method in the human sciences: positivism and its epistemological others

by Steinmetz, George

fromPolitics, history, and culture

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Offers a comparative assessment of the variations of positivism & alternative epistemologies in the contemporary human sciences. Often declared obsolete, positivism is alive & well in a number of fields, while in others its influence is significantly diminished.

Metadiscourse in Digital Communication: New Research, Approaches and Methodologies

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"This book combines a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to metadiscourse and offers new conceptual tools and frameworks for analysing written, spoken and multimodal discourse. The studies included in the volume offer new perspectives on the role of metadiscourse…

Big Data Analytics in Cognitive Social Media and Literary Texts: Theory and Praxis

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This book provides a comprehensive overview of the theory and praxis of Big Data Analytics and how these are used to extract cognition-related information from social media and literary texts. It presents analytics that transcends the borders of discipline-specific academic rese…

Handbook of Artificial Intelligence for Music: Foundations, Advanced Approaches, and Development…

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This unique reference presents comprehensive coverage of the latest advances in research into enabling machines to listen to and compose new music. It includes chapters introducing what is known about human musical intelligence and on how this knowledge can be simulated with art…

Discourse Processes between Reason and Emotion: A Post-disciplinary Perspective

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This book addresses different forms of discourse by analysing the emergence of power dynamics in communication and their importance in shaping the production and reception of messages. The chapters focus on specific cognitive aspects, such as the verbal expression of reasoning o…

Faces of Geometry: II Edition

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The volume reports on interdisciplinary discussions and interactions between theoretical research and practical studies on geometric structures and their applications in architecture, the arts, design, education, engineering, and mathematics. These related fields of research can…

Next Civilization: Digital Democracy and Socio-Ecological Finance - …

by Helbing, Dirk

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"Digital transformation" sounds harmless, given that the explosion in data volumes, processing power and Artificial Intelligence has driven humanity and the entire world to a point of no return. We will surely see a new civilization, but we are at a crossroads. The future needs …

Augmented Humanity: Being and Remaining Agentic in a Digitalized World

by Bryant, Peter T.

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This open access book will examine the implications of digitalization for the understanding of humanity, conceived as a community of intelligent agency. It addresses important topics across a range of social and behavioral theories and identifies a range of novel mechanisms and …

Multivariate Humanities

by Kroonenberg, Pieter M.

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This case study-based textbook in multivariate analysis for advanced students in the humanities emphasizes descriptive, exploratory analyses of various types of data sets from a wide range of sub-disciplines, promoting the use of multivariate analysis and illustrating its wide a…

Reframing Postcolonial Studies: Concepts, Methodologies, Scholarly Activisms

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This book constitutes a collective action to examine what foundational concepts, interdisciplinary methodologies, and activist concerns are pivotal for the future of common humanity, as we bear the weight of our postcolonial inheritance in the twenty-first century. Written by sc…

Theatre and Archival Memory: Irish Drama and Marginalised Histories 1951-1977

by Houlihan, Barry

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"Theatre and Archival Memory analyses a pivotal but under-explored period in Irish theatre history. Using a staggering array of archival sources - many of which have never before been written about - this book will have a transformative impact on Irish theatre history and histor…