Overview
[AI Summary]: This H-Net review by Zef Segal examines “Computational Humanities” (2024), edited by Lauren Tilton, David Mimno, and Jessica Marie Johnson. Segal argues the volume serves as a vital “critical toolkit” that moves beyond showcasing digital projects to offering profound meditations on computational praxis in humanities scholarship. The review highlights the book’s focus on productive friction between computational tools and humanistic interpretation, its transferable methodological models (from NLP to GIS to generative AI), and crucial ethical grounding through case studies like Freedom on the Move. Segal particularly praises the volume’s unifying demand for critical self-reflection, positioning it as essential reading for scholars seeking to ask better questions in the computational age rather than finding easy answers.
- Author: Zef Segal
- Year: 2025
- Type: Book Review
- Published on: H-Sci-Med-Tech, H-Net Reviews
- Reviewed Book: Tilton, Lauren; Mimno, David; Johnson, Jessica Marie (eds.). Computational Humanities. University of Minnesota Press, 2024.
- License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0