Breaking the Book is a manifesto on the cognitive consequences and emotional effects of human interactions with physical books that reveals why the traditional humanities disciplines are resistant to 'digital' humanities.
* Explores the reasons why the traditional humanities disciplines are resistant to 'digital humanities'
* Reveals facets of book history, offering it as an example of how different media shape our modes of thinking and feeling
* Gathers together the most important book history and literary criticism concerning the hundred years leading up to the early 19th-century emergence of mass print culture
* Predicts effects of the digital revolution on disciplinarity, expertise, and the institutional restructuring of the humanities
* Explores the reasons why the traditional humanities disciplines are resistant to 'digital humanities'
* Reveals facets of book history, offering it as an example of how different media shape our modes of thinking and feeling
* Gathers together the most important book history and literary criticism concerning the hundred years leading up to the early 19th-century emergence of mass print culture
* Predicts effects of the digital revolution on disciplinarity, expertise, and the institutional restructuring of the humanities
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9781118274552
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-118-27455-2
- Verlag: Wiley
- Erscheinungstermin: 29.05.2015
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2015
- Serie: Blackwell Manifestos
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Gewicht: 456 g
- Seiten: 240
- Format (B x H x T): 158 x 231 x 54 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Themen
- Interdisziplinäres
- Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften
- Archivierung, Konservierung & Digitalisierung
- Sozialwissenschaften
- Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften
- Kommunikationswissenschaften
- Massenmedien & Massenkommunikation