Digital culture - new books at the library

 

1     Collaborative research in the digital humanities

      Collaborative research in the digital humanities : a volume in honour of

        Harold Short, on the occasion of his 65th birthday and his retirement,

        September 2010 / edited by Marilyn Deegan and Willard McCarty. - Farnham :

        Ashgate, 2012. - X, 248 s.

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       Collaboration within digital humanities is both a pertinent and a pressing
       topic as the traditional mode of the humanist, working alone in his or her
       study, is supplemented by explicitly co-operative, interdependent and 
       collaborative research.

 

2     Digital folklore

      Digital folklore : [to computer users, with love and respect] / edited by

        Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied ; designed by Manuel Buerger. -

        Stuttgart : Merz & Solitude, 2009. - 286 s. (Projektiv)

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       Technical innovations shape only a small part of computer and network culture.
       It doesn't matter much who invented the microprocessor, the mouse, TCP/IP or
       the World Wide Web; nor does it matter what ideas were behind these
       inventions. What matters is who uses them. Only when users start to express
       themselves with these technical innovations do they truly become relevant to
       culture at large.

 

3     Drucker, Johanna: SpecLab

      Drucker, Johanna

      SpecLab : digital aesthetics and projects in speculative

      computing. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009. - XIX, 241 s.

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      Nearly a decade ago, Johanna Drucker cofounded the University of Virginia’s
      SpecLab, a digital humanities laboratory dedicated to risky projects with serious
      aims. In SpecLab she explores the implications of these radical efforts to use
      critical practices and aesthetic principles against the authority of technology
      based on analytic models of knowledge. 
            

4     Kinsella, Michael: Legend-tripping online

      Kinsella, Michael

       Legend-tripping online : supernatural folklore and the search for Ong's

       hat. - Jackson, Miss : University Press of Mississippi, 2011. - XIII, 211 s.

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      On the Internet, seekers investigate anonymous manifestos that focus on the
      findings of brilliant scientists said to have discovered pathways into alternate   
      realities. Gathering on web forums, researchers not only share their
      observations, but also report having anomalous experiences, which they
      believe come from their online involvement with these veiled documents.
      Seeming logic combines with wild twists of lost Moorish science and
      pseudo-string theory. Enthusiasts insist any obstacle to revelation is a
      sure sign of great and wide-reaching efforts  by consensus powers wishing
      to suppress all the liberating truths in the Incunabula Papers (included
     here in complete form). In Legend-Tripping Online, Michael Kinsella
     explores these and other extraordinary pursuits.

5     Leaver, Tama: Artificial culture

      Leaver, Tama

       Artificial culture : identity, technology, and bodies. - New York :

      Routledge, 2012. - XIV, 217 s. (Routledge research in cultural and media

      studies ; 37)

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     Artificial Culture is an examination of the articulation, construction, and
     representation of "the artificial" in contemporary popular cultural texts,
     especially science fiction films and novels. The book argues that today we live in
     an artificial culture due to the deep and inextricable relationship
     between people, our bodies, and technology at large. While the artificial is often
     imagined as outside of the natural order and thus also beyond the
     realm of humanity, paradoxically, artificial concepts are simultaneously produced
     and constructed by human ideas and labor. The artificial can thus act
     as a boundary point against which we as a culture can measure what it means
     to be human. Science fiction feature films and novels, and other related media,
     frequently and provocatively deploy ideas of the artificial in ways which the lines
     between people, our bodies, spaces and culture more broadly blur and,
     at times, dissolve.

 

6     Ramsay, Stephen: Reading machines

      Ramsay, Stephen

       Reading machines : toward and algorithmic criticism. - Urbana : University

      of Illinois Press, cop. 2011. - XII, 128 s. (Topics in the digital

      humanities)

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     Besides familiar and now-commonplace tasks that computers do all the time,
     what else are they capable of? Stephen Ramsay's intriguing study of
     computational text analysis examines how computers can be used as "reading
     machines" to open up entirely new possibilities for literary critics.
     Computer-based text analysis has been employed for the past several
     decades as a way of searching, collating, and indexing texts. Despite this, the
    digital revolution has not penetrated the core activity of literary studies:
    interpretive analysis of written texts.

 

7     Rheingold, Howard: Net smart

      Rheingold, Howard

       Net smart : how to thrive online. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, cop.

      2012. - VIII, 322 s.

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     Like it or not, knowing how to make use of online tools without being
     overloaded with too much information is an essential ingredient to
     personal success in the twenty-first century. But how can we use digital
     media so that they make us empowered participants rather than passive
     receivers, grounded, well-rounded people rather than multitasking basket
     cases? In Net Smart, cyberculture expert Howard Rheingold shows us how to
    use social media intelligently, humanely, and, above all, mindfully.

 

8     Wessels, Bridgette: Understanding the Internet

      Wessels, Bridgette

       Understanding the Internet : a socio-cultural perspective. - Basingstoke :

      Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. - X, 233 s.

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     The internet is an everyday part of our contemporary lives. This book explores
     how it is shaped and embedded within society, fostering new social worlds and
     ways of talking. Using a wide range of examples to examine economic, political
     and cultural issues, this book is crucial reading for all those studying society,
     media and technology.