DIGITAL HUMANITIES: ЦИФРОВА ЕРА У ГУМАНІСТАРИСТИЦІ

Abstract

The article considers the main directions in the field of applied methods of using Digital humanity, characteristics of leading research centers, laboratories and programs. Digital humanities projects are described at several levels that start with basic computing (programming, processing, and protocols) and go through the organization and production levels (interface, devices, networks). The methods of Digital humanity that apply to almost all types of cultural research and are related to cultural practices that use the soft Media language are considered: computer design, editing, creating databases (text, library, online encyclopedias, communication tools in the form of chats, messengers, social networks, etc.), and digital sociological, philological, historical, ethnographic research. The article examines in detail the phenomenon of digital humanities in the context of Peter Galison’s theory of “zones of exchange”, understood as “local coordination of beliefs and actions”. The aim of the study is to show that the methods of knowledge production working in the digital humanities influence the mechanisms of its institutionalization. The article is detailed the tool-knowledge-institutionalization relationship is analyzed and conclusions are made about current and potential models of institutionalization of this “exchange zone” in a foreign language contex.In the course of our research, we show that the digital humanities function as a kind of cognitive laboratory with virtual extensions in digital space. Considering the relationship of knowledge production strategies and tool development, we come to the conclusion that without an understanding of the nature of humanities knowledge, condensed inside digital analytical tools (e.g. text analysis tools), it is impossible to comprehend the epistemological vector of digital humanitarian research.