Course: History and Philosophy of Technology

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Course title History and Philosophy of Technology
Course code KFI/VPD
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Doctoral
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 10
Language of instruction Czech, English
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Záhořík Martin, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Digital transformation in the humanities and social sciences; digital humanities; digitization of cultural heritage; open science; FAIR principles; replication crisis and responses to it; programming languages and reproducibility of data analysis; formal network analysis; geographic information systems; natural language processing; distant reading; agent simulations.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 234 hours per semester
  • Contact hours - 26 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
to describe the crucial methods of humanities
to introduce basic types of computer applications
to describe common functions of the most common computer applications
Skills
to use the apparatus of philosophy of humanities
to use a personal computer to search for and study relevant information on the Internet
to use a personal computer, tablet or smartphone to read academic texts
to use modern technology, especially digital libraries
Competences
N/A
N/A
dr. studium: prezentují výstupy vlastního výzkumu
learning outcomes
Knowledge
to present the basic effects of the digital revolution on the humanities and social sciences
to characterize types of research in the digital humanities
to prove understanding of the current state of international research in the field
to introduce common methods used in digital humanities
to characterize epistemological issues related to the use of computational methods in the humanities/social sciences
to explain the basic concepts of open science and the principles of transparent and reproducible practices when working with scientific data
Skills
to use selected computer tools in the field of digital humanities in their own research
to design a database structure suitable for selected humanities data
to analyze data using a selected computer tool in the field of digital humanities
Competences
N/A
N/A
teaching methods
Knowledge
One-to-One tutorial
Self-study of literature
Textual studies
Skills
One-to-One tutorial
Individual study
Competences
One-to-One tutorial
Textual studies
Self-study of literature
assessment methods
Knowledge
Oral exam
Skills
Oral exam
Competences
Oral exam
Recommended literature
  • BORGMAN, Christine. Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World. Cambridge - London: The MIT Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0-262-52991-4.
  • Burdick, Anne; Schnapp, Jeffrey; Drucker, Johanna,; Lunenfeld, Peter,; Presner, Todd. Digital humanities. 2012. ISBN 978-0-262-52886-3.
  • BUYALSKAYA, Anastasia; Marcos GALLO a Colin F. CAMERER. The golden age of social science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2021, ISSN 0027-8424.
  • DESAI, Jules; David WATSON; Vincent WANG; Mariarosaria TADDEO a Luciano FLORIDI. The epistemological foundations of data science: a critical review. Synthese. 2022, ISSN 1573-0964.
  • Hladík, Radim. Digitální obrat v českých humanitních a sociálních vědách. Vydání první. 2022. ISBN 978-80-246-5193-4.
  • JOST, Jürgen; Roberto LALLI; Manfred D. LAUBICHLER; Eckehard OLBRICH; Jürgen RENN; Guillermo RESTREPO; Peter F. STADLER a Dirk WINTERGRÜN. Computational History: Challenges and Opportunities of Formal Approaches. Journal of Social Computing. 2023, ISSN 2688-5255.
  • KITCHIN, Rob. The data revolution: a critical analysis of big data, open data & data infrastructures. Los Angeles, CA: Sage Publications, 2022. ISBN 978-1-5297-3375-4.


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