The emergence of the digital humanities /
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 and the academy more broadly. Based on the premise that the network is now everywhere rather than merely "out there,...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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New York :
Routledge,
2014.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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 and the academy more broadly. Based on the premise that the network is now everywhere 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 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 212 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781136202346 113620234X 0203093089 9780203093085 9781136202353 1136202358 129979209X 9781299792098 9781136202308 1136202307 9780415635516 0415635519 |