Digital Humanities and Digital Media: Conversations on Politics, Culture, Aesthetics and Literacy
London: Open Humanities Press (2016), 304 pp.
ISBN 978-1-78542-031-3 (pdf); 978-1-78542-030-6 (print)
CC BY-SA
"The observations shared in this book take the form of conversations about digital media and culture centered around four distinct thematic fields: politics and government, algorithm and censorship, art and aesthetics, as well as media literacy and education. Among the keywords discussed are: data mining, algorithmic regulation, sharing culture, filter bubble, distant reading, power browsing, deep attention, transparent reader, interactive art, participatory culture. The interviewees (mostly from the US, but also from France, Brazil, and Denmark) were given a set of common questions as well specific inquiries tailored to their individual areas of interest and expertise. As a result, the book both identifies different takes on the same issues and enables a diversity of perspectives when it comes to the interviewees’ particular concerns." (Publisher description)
Introduction / Roberto Simanowski, 9
1 At the intersection of computational methods and the traditional humanities / Johanna Drucker, 43
2 Of Capta, vectoralists, reading and the Googlization of universities / John Cayley, 69
3 Mediascape, antropotechnics, culture of presence, and the flight from God / Erick Felinto, 93
4 Computerization always promotes centralization even as it promotes decentralization / David Golumbia, 123
5 Network Societies 2.0: The extension of computing into the social and human environment / Ulrik Ekman, 148
6 Enslaved by digital technology / Mihai Nadin, 184
7 Self-monitoring and corporate interests / Nick Montfort, 206
8 The age of print literacy and 'deep critical attention' is filled with war, genocide and environmental devastation / Rodney Jones, 228
9 Surfing the web, algorithmic criticism and Digital Humanities / Diane Favro, Kathleen Komar, Todd Presner, Willeke Wendrich, 247
10 Opening the depths, not sliding on surfaces / N. Katherine Hayles, 265
11 From writing space to designing mirrors / Jay David Bolter, 273
12 Digital knowledge, obsessive computing, short-termism and need for a negentropic Web / Bernard Stiegler, 290
1 At the intersection of computational methods and the traditional humanities / Johanna Drucker, 43
2 Of Capta, vectoralists, reading and the Googlization of universities / John Cayley, 69
3 Mediascape, antropotechnics, culture of presence, and the flight from God / Erick Felinto, 93
4 Computerization always promotes centralization even as it promotes decentralization / David Golumbia, 123
5 Network Societies 2.0: The extension of computing into the social and human environment / Ulrik Ekman, 148
6 Enslaved by digital technology / Mihai Nadin, 184
7 Self-monitoring and corporate interests / Nick Montfort, 206
8 The age of print literacy and 'deep critical attention' is filled with war, genocide and environmental devastation / Rodney Jones, 228
9 Surfing the web, algorithmic criticism and Digital Humanities / Diane Favro, Kathleen Komar, Todd Presner, Willeke Wendrich, 247
10 Opening the depths, not sliding on surfaces / N. Katherine Hayles, 265
11 From writing space to designing mirrors / Jay David Bolter, 273
12 Digital knowledge, obsessive computing, short-termism and need for a negentropic Web / Bernard Stiegler, 290
