Digital Humanities and National Philology: on Possible Implications of the Computational Turn

Abstract

U radu se problematizira uloga digitalnih tehnologija u humanističkim znanostima, osobito u proučavanju i studiju nacionalne filologije. Uz kratak pregled povijesti digitalne humanistike i njezinih valova opisuje se tzv. računalni obrat u suvremenim znanstvenim istraživanjima. Osim promjena u metodama (opozicija tradicionalnoga pomnoga i novoga udaljenoga čitanja) upućuje se na uočavanje promjena u samoj ontologiji humanističkoga istraživanja. Digitalni medij utječe na promjene u kulturi, ali i u znanju, što vodi k posve novomu konceptu sveučilišta. Novi, hibridni oblici znanstvenoga istraživanja i akademskoga podučavanja, koji se naziru u budućnosti, zahtijevaju aktivno promišljanje uloge digitalnoga kako u studiju kroatistike kao nacionalne filologije tako i u budućim kroatističkim znanstvenim istraživanjima.The article discusses the role of digital technologies in the humanities, especially in the research of national philology and its academic teaching. In addition to a short overview of the history of digital humanities and their phases the article discusses the socalled computational turn in contemporary scholarly research. Besides observing the change in methods (opposition of classical close-reading and new distant reading), the author emphasizes the change in the ontology of research in the humanities. Digital medium affects the changes in culture, but also in knowledge, which in consequence leads to a completely new concept of university. New, hybrid forms of scholarly research and academic teaching which can be discerned in future require active deliberation on the role of the digital both in studying Croatian language and literature as a national philology and in the future research of Croatian language and literature