OPENING THE BLACK BOX OF INTERPRETATION: DIGITAL HISTORY PRACTICES AS MODELS OF KNOWLEDGE

Schwandt S (2022)
History and Theory 61(4): 77-85.

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Digital history is more than just the implementation of algorithmic and other data practices in the practice of history writing. It places our discipline under a microscope and enables us to focus in on what history writing is in the first place: writing about the past under specific social and societal conditions. This article argues for a closer look at the traditions of history writing in order to understand its principles and to determine what the digital condition contributes to historiography. Does the work of historians actually change in principle, or does digital history instead reflect the digital condition under which we operate? The article begins with a reflection on the works of Wilhelm Dilthey and Michel de Certeau to discuss how the society in which the historian writes influences the practices of interpretation. The article then presents what can be understood as the digital condition of our present societies and shows how algorithms function as "black boxes " that influence our social interactions, communication, and understanding of the world. The article's third part brings together the earlier discussions of practices of history writing and the digital condition in order to examine the role of modeling for knowledge production in the sciences and the humanities. The closing argument then focuses on the use of visualizations in digital history as an example of the operational use of models of knowledge in opening the "black box " of interpretation.
Stichworte
algorithms; digital condition; digital history; historiography; history; of science; interpretation; modeling; research practices
Erscheinungsjahr
2022
Zeitschriftentitel
History and Theory
Band
61
Ausgabe
4
Seite(n)
77-85
ISSN
0018-2656
eISSN
1468-2303
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Schwandt S. OPENING THE BLACK BOX OF INTERPRETATION: DIGITAL HISTORY PRACTICES AS MODELS OF KNOWLEDGE. History and Theory. 2022;61(4):77-85.
Schwandt, S. (2022). OPENING THE BLACK BOX OF INTERPRETATION: DIGITAL HISTORY PRACTICES AS MODELS OF KNOWLEDGE. History and Theory, 61(4), 77-85. https://doi.org/10.1111/hith.12281
Schwandt, Silke. 2022. “OPENING THE BLACK BOX OF INTERPRETATION: DIGITAL HISTORY PRACTICES AS MODELS OF KNOWLEDGE”. History and Theory 61 (4): 77-85.
Schwandt, S. (2022). OPENING THE BLACK BOX OF INTERPRETATION: DIGITAL HISTORY PRACTICES AS MODELS OF KNOWLEDGE. History and Theory 61, 77-85.
Schwandt, S., 2022. OPENING THE BLACK BOX OF INTERPRETATION: DIGITAL HISTORY PRACTICES AS MODELS OF KNOWLEDGE. History and Theory, 61(4), p 77-85.
S. Schwandt, “OPENING THE BLACK BOX OF INTERPRETATION: DIGITAL HISTORY PRACTICES AS MODELS OF KNOWLEDGE”, History and Theory, vol. 61, 2022, pp. 77-85.
Schwandt, S.: OPENING THE BLACK BOX OF INTERPRETATION: DIGITAL HISTORY PRACTICES AS MODELS OF KNOWLEDGE. History and Theory. 61, 77-85 (2022).
Schwandt, Silke. “OPENING THE BLACK BOX OF INTERPRETATION: DIGITAL HISTORY PRACTICES AS MODELS OF KNOWLEDGE”. History and Theory 61.4 (2022): 77-85.
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