Ethics of the Algorithm: Digital Humanities and Holocaust Memory

by Todd Presner

How computational methods can expand how we see, read, and listen to Holocaust testimony

The Holocaust is one of the most documented--and now digitized--events in human history. Institutions and archives hold hundreds of thousands of hours of audio and video testimony, composed of more than a billion words in dozens of languages, with millions of pieces of descriptive metadata. It would take several lifetimes to engage with these...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691258961
• ISBN13: 9780691258966
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.3"