Description
Introductory and user-friendly textbook for scholars and students in the humanities
Multidisciplinary approach to digital culture
Cross-fertilization of three major perspectives: history of ideas, art, identity and memory studies
Includes a wide selection of examples and case studies with many suggestions for advanced study and reading
The digital revolution has changed our ways of thinking, working, writing, and living together. In this book the authors critically analyse the ways in which these new technologies have reshaped our world in numerous respects, ranging from politics, ideology, and philosophy over art and communication to memory and identity. The book challenges the customary view of a divide between analog and digital culture, claiming instead that human endeavour has always been characterized by certain forms and aspects of digital thinking, building, and communicating, and that essential parts of analog culture are still being reshaped by new digital technologies. It offers a multidisciplinary approach to digital reason, reflecting the diversity of humanities scholarship and its fundamental contribution to the ongoing changes in our current and future thinking and doing.
Author: Jan Baetens, Ortwin De Graef, Silvana Mandolessi
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: 04/15/2020
Pages: 300
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.70w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9789462702066
ISBN10: 9462702063
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Media Studies
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
About the Author
Jan Baetens is professor of Literature and Cultural Studies at KU Leuven.
Ortwin de Graef is professor of Literature and Cultural Studies at KU Leuven. Silvana Mandolessi is professor of Literature and Cultural Studies at KU Leuven.