[AI Summary]: This comprehensive interview with Professor Caroline Bassett, Director of the Cambridge Digital Humanities Centre, explores the evolution and critical perspectives of digital humanities. Bassett discusses her journey from technology journalism through digital media studies into DH, emphasizing the importance of critical theory alongside computational methods. The interview covers key topics including the relationship between narrative and machines in the digital age, the concept of “anti-computing” as resistance to technological determinism, techno-feminism and digital futures, and the challenges AI poses to humanities research. Bassett advocates for a nuanced approach that neither reduces technology to mere tools nor accepts uncritical technological solutionism, arguing for DH as a space for interdisciplinary collaboration that can address both technical and cultural dimensions of our increasingly digital world.
Interview Details
- Interviewee: Caroline Bassett, Professor and Director of Cambridge Digital Humanities Centre
- Institution: University of Cambridge, Faculty of English
- Research Focus: Digital technologies and knowledge production, cultural forms in information capitalism
- Key Publications:
- The Arc and the Machine: Narrative and New Media (2007)
- Anti-Computing: Dissent and the Machine (2021)
- Furious: Technological Feminism and Digital Futures (2023)
- Interview Date: April 17, 2024
- Location: Cambridge University
- Interviewers: Jiang Yuqin (Shenzhen University), Jiang Huiling (Dalian University of Foreign Languages)
- Language: Chinese (translated from English interview)