The Emergence of the Digital Humanities

• Main Author: Jones, Steven E
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2013; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Bethany Nowviskie; Biography, Literature and Literary studies; Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities; Computer network resources; Critical Theory; Cultural and media studies; Cultural studies; Cultural Theory; Culture; Cyberculture; DH Work; Digital communications; digital culture; Digital Humanities; digital media; digital technology; DNA Image; Education, Higher; Education, Higher > Effect of technological innovations on; Effect of technological innovations on; Electronic information resources; Game Developers; gamification; Google Map API; History; History and Archaeology; History: specific events and topics; Humanities; Humanities > Computer network resources; Humanities > Electronic information resources; Humanities Computing; humanities scholarship; Library and information sciences / Museology; Literary; Literary studies: general; Literary theory; Literature & Culture; Literature: history and criticism; Media Studies; Media Theory; Microsoft's Xbox Kinect; MIT's Center; MLA Program; Multi User Dungeon; Museology and heritage studies; New Media; Open Source Software; Peripheral Devices; Play Things; popular social media; QR Code; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; RGB Camera; Round Room; Scan QR Code; Social & Cultural History; Social and cultural history; Social Science; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; Spook Country; Video Games; William Gibson; Spook Country; Digital Humanities; MIT's Center; DNA Image; QR Code; Bethany Nowviskie; LDA; Humanities Computing; Indie Game; Game Developers; Open Source Software; MLA Program; Multi User Dungeon; Play Things; Microsoft's Xbox Kinect; RGB Camera; Peripheral Devices; Google Map API; Google Maps; VR Environment; Immersive VR; Round Room; VR Experiment; Scan QR Code; DH Work
• ISBN: 0415635519; 9780415635523; 0415635527; 9780415635516; 0203093089; 9781136202308; 113620234X; 1136202358; 9780203093085; 9781136202353; 1136202307; 9781136202346
• DOI: 10.4324/9780203093085

The past decade has seen a profound shift in our collective understanding of the digital network. 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 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. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203093085, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.