Software Intensive Humanities

Abstract

Software-intensiveSoftware Intensive Humanitiesmethods hold profound implications for humanities research, as they do for science. By placing advanced technology between the observer and the observed, enhancing (or in some cases making possible) certain kinds of research, they complicate the production of knowledge and demand new critical and methodological perspectives. Digital humanists are leading the development of these new perspectives, but more work is needed, to ensure transparency and an appropriate interpretation of results. It is a subject that benefits from analysis informed by not only postphenomenology and thing theory, but the wider field of Science and Technology Studies (STS).