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The Digital Humanities and the Digital Modern. Humanities and New Media.
James Smithies
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Description for The Digital Humanities and the Digital Modern. Humanities and New Media.
Hardback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
This book provides new critical and methodological approaches to digital humanities, intended to guide technical development as well as critical analysis. Informed by the history of technology and culture and new perspectives on modernity, Smithies grounds his claims in the engineered nature of computing devices and their complex entanglement with our communities, our scholarly traditions, and our sense of self. The distorting mentalité of the digital modern informs our attitudes to computers and computationally intensive research, leading scholars to reject articulations of meaning that admit the interdependence of humans and the complex socio-technological systems we are embedded in. By framing ... Read more
This book provides new critical and methodological approaches to digital humanities, intended to guide technical development as well as critical analysis. Informed by the history of technology and culture and new perspectives on modernity, Smithies grounds his claims in the engineered nature of computing devices and their complex entanglement with our communities, our scholarly traditions, and our sense of self. The distorting mentalité of the digital modern informs our attitudes to computers and computationally intensive research, leading scholars to reject articulations of meaning that admit the interdependence of humans and the complex socio-technological systems we are embedded in. By framing ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
268
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137499431
SKU
V9781137499431
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99-15
About James Smithies
James Smithies is Director of King’s Digital Lab at King’s College London. He was previously Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities and Associate Director of the UC CEISMIC Digital Archive at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
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