Resource: The Emergence of the Digital Humanities

Summary

This book discusses DH from a new media studies perspective. It gives many examples of various technology - maps, QR codes, RDIF, etc., and discusses how they relate and/are incorporated into DH.

Useful Content

Chapter 1

• the eversion of cyberspace onto the physical realm; colonization of the physical (William Gibson); pervasiveness and ubiquity

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• "The new DH starts from the assumption of a new, mixed-reality humanities, complicated and worldly, mediating between the physical artifacts and archives on which humanities discourse has historically been built, and the mobile and pervasive digital networks that increasingly overlay and make those artifacts in to data-rich, tagged and encoded, sensor-enhanced things, what author Bruce Sterling (Gibson's friend and collaborator) calls spimes. From its origins in the early modern era to today, the humanities has been, in part, a collective effort by scholars and others to discover, edit, archive, interpret, and understand out cultural heritage as it has been transmitted--which is to say in the forms of inherited material objects, stone tools, runes, artifacts and works of art, manuscripts and books, new media and software. Encoding and decoding, augmenting, commenting on and interpreting the layers of data that surround those objects and make them culturally significant have historically formed the agenda (or call it the calling) of the humanities."

Chapter 5

• Internet of Things

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Eversion
2. Dimensions
3. People
4. Places
5. Things
6. Publications
7. Practices

Review

• A bit too "new media studies" in regard to theory.