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Computational thinking and critical digital humanities

Center for Computational Thinking

Computational thinking and critical digital humanities

Computational thinking and critical digital humanities is a pilot study done by Bo Allesøe Christensen culminating in a Trend Bite book “Computational Thinking” published by Aalborg University Press.

Center for Computational Thinking

Computational thinking and critical digital humanities

Computational thinking and critical digital humanities is a pilot study done by Bo Allesøe Christensen culminating in a Trend Bite book “Computational Thinking” published by Aalborg University Press.

The aim of this study was an analysis and critique of the concepts of computation and thinking/cognition and how they are understood as related within some of the core computational thinking literature. The result was a widening of the scope of the meaning of these concepts, so computational thinking can be used critically to

  1.  analyze the use of computing technologies within our everyday lives and its effect on our cognition, understood as both embodied, embedded, enacted and extended, and
  2. construct and reconstruct technologies dealing with and avoiding any unfortunate and inappropriate effects. Computational thinking can then be part of digital humanities as a critical analytical constructionism.