The Emergence of the Digital Humanities

By Jones, Steven E.

Subjects: Media studies, Higher Education, Digital communications, REFERENCE, Social Science / Media Studies, Humanities, Electronic information resources, Social sciences, Computer network resources, Questions & Answers, Sciences sociales, Effect of technological innovations on

Description: 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.