Humanistic informatics

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"Humanistic Informatics" is one of several names chosen for the study of the relationship between human culture and technology. The term is fairly common in Europe, but is little known in the English-speaking world, though Digital Humanities is in many cases roughly equivalent.

Humanistic informatics departments were generally started in the nineties when universities rarely taught humanities-based approaches to the rapidly developing computerised society. For this reason, the field was quite broadly defined, and included courses in humanities computing, basic introductions to how computers work, historical developments of technology, technology and learning, digital art and literature and digital culture. Today several departments have declared more specialised areas of research, such as digital arts and culture at the University of Bergen, and socio-cultural communication with and without technology at the University of Aalborg.

[edit] Departments of humanistic informatics at universities

• Informatica Umanistica, University of Pisa, Italy
• Seksjon for humanistisk informatikk, University of Bergen, Norway
• Humanistisk informatikk, University of Oslo (now merged with other departments)
• Humanistisk informatik, University of Aalborg
• Humanistisk informatik, University of Copenhagen