The emergence of the digital humanities / Steven E. Jones.
The past decade has seen a profound shift in our collective understanding of the digital networks. What was once understood to be a transcendent virtual reality is now experienced as a ubiquitous grid of data that we move through and interact with every day, raising new questions about the social, l...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2014.
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| Online Access: | Access via Directory of Open Access Books |
| Summary: | The past decade has seen a profound shift in our collective understanding of the digital networks. What was once understood to be a transcendent virtual reality is now experienced as a ubiquitous grid of data that we move through and interact with every day, raising new questions about the social, locative, embodied, and object-oriented nature of our experience in the networked world. In The Emergence of the Digital Humanities, Steven E. Jones examines this shift in our relationship to digital technology and the ways that it has affected humanities scholarship rather than merely "out there," Jones links together seemingly disparate cultural events - the essential features of popular social media, the rise of motion-control gaming and mobile platforms, the controversy over the "gamification" of everyday life, the spatial turn, fabrication and 3D printing, and electronic publishing - and argues that cultural responses to changes in technology provide an essential context for understanding the emergence of the digital humanities as a new field of study in this millennium. -- from back cover. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 212 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780203093085 0203093089 |