DIGITAL TURN OF MATERIAL OBJECTS IN THE TEXTUAL WORKS OF DIGITAL HERMENEUTIC

Abstract

Since the beginning of the 21st century, the digital turn of new media such as computers and the
Internet has significantly impacted the traditional humanities and hermeneutics. When the
traditional humanities are updated as the digital humanities, the traditional hermeneutics are also
updated as digital. Disciplines such as literary studies and philology turn into digital literary studies
and computer philology. Digital texts also replace printed ones because the literary and philological
information obtained from digital textual works has a significant function as an essential
competence of digital interpretation. At this point, the material objects of the printed textual works
appear as immaterial objects of the digital media. The material and non-material impacts of the print
media and the digital media on the textual works of digital interpretation in digital literary studies
and computer philology are dealt with as the central topic of this work. Finally, answers are
searched for these questions: Are the methods of traditional interpretation directly incorporated into the practices of digital
hermeneutics? Or are the forms of digital interpretation determined independently of the methods of
traditional hermeneutics according to the properties of digital media?