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OPENING THE BLACK BOX OF INTERPRETATION: DIGITAL HISTORY PRACTICES AS MODELS OF KNOWLEDGE
History and Theory ( IF 0.718 ) Pub Date : 2022-12-04 , DOI: 10.1111/hith.12281
SILKE SCHWANDT 1
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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.

中文翻译:

打开解释的黑匣子:作为知识模型的数字历史实践

数字历史不仅仅是历史书写实践中算法和其他数据实践的实施。它将我们的学科置于显微镜下,使我们能够首先关注历史写作是什么:在特定的社会和社会条件下写下过去。本文主张仔细研究历史写作的传统,以了解其原则并确定数字条件对史学的贡献。历史学家的工作实际上在原则上发生了变化,还是数字历史反而反映了我们运作的数字条件?文章以对威廉·狄尔泰 (Wilhelm Dilthey) 和米歇尔·德·塞尔托 (Michel de Certeau) 作品的反思开始,讨论历史学家写作的社会如何影响解释实践。然后,本文介绍了可以理解为我们当前社会的数字状况,并展示了算法如何发挥“黑匣子”的作用,影响我们的社会互动、交流和对世界的理解。本文的第三部分汇集了早期关于历史写作实践和数字条件的讨论,以检验建模在科学和人文学科中对知识生产的作用。然后,结案陈词侧重于数字历史中可视化的使用,作为知识模型在打开解释“黑匣子”方面的操作性使用的一个例子。和对世界的理解。本文的第三部分汇集了早期关于历史写作实践和数字条件的讨论,以检验建模在科学和人文学科中对知识生产的作用。然后,结案陈词侧重于数字历史中可视化的使用,作为知识模型在打开解释“黑匣子”方面的操作性使用的一个例子。和对世界的理解。本文的第三部分汇集了早期关于历史写作实践和数字条件的讨论,以检验建模在科学和人文学科中对知识生产的作用。然后,结案陈词侧重于数字历史中可视化的使用,作为知识模型在打开解释“黑匣子”方面的操作性使用的一个例子。
更新日期:2022-12-04
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