Media Boundaries and Conceptual Modelling: Between Texts and Maps
Øyvind Eide
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Description for Media Boundaries and Conceptual Modelling: Between Texts and Maps
Hardcover. This book brings together digital humanities and intermedia studies to establish the field of transformative digital intermedia studies. It does so in a model based study of the differences between texts and maps that will be important for the further development of the spatial humanities. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; KNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
Media Boundaries and Conceptual Modelling forms part of the humanities tradition by facing one of the fundamental problems since antiquity: how different media represent the world we live in. It intersects also with the digital by addressing the problem with the help of a digital humanities method: computer assisted conceptual modelling. And it acknowledges the spatial turn by investigating the boundary between what has traditionally been the two main media for representation of geospatial information: texts and maps.
It contributes to the further development of digital humanities and bridges the two areas of digital humanities and intermedia studies. Further, it ... Read more
Media Boundaries and Conceptual Modelling forms part of the humanities tradition by facing one of the fundamental problems since antiquity: how different media represent the world we live in. It intersects also with the digital by addressing the problem with the help of a digital humanities method: computer assisted conceptual modelling. And it acknowledges the spatial turn by investigating the boundary between what has traditionally been the two main media for representation of geospatial information: texts and maps.
It contributes to the further development of digital humanities and bridges the two areas of digital humanities and intermedia studies. Further, it ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
230
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137544575
SKU
V9781137544575
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Ref
99-15
About Øyvind Eide
Øyvind Eide is Lecturer and Research Associate at the Chair of Digital Humanities, University of Passau, Germany. He has a PhD in Digital Humanities from King's College London and has worked with cultural heritage information and digital humanities at the University of Oslo since the 1990s.
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