" Digital_Humanities is a compact, game-changing report on the state of contemporary knowledge production. Answering the question, "What is digital humanities?," it provides an in-depth examination of an emerging field. This collaboratively authored and visually compelling volume explores methodologies and techniques unfamiliar to traditional modes of humanis ..."
"The computer, writes Peter Lunenfeld, is the twenty-first century's culture machine. It is a dream device, serving as the mode of production, the means of distribution, and the site of reception. We haven't quite achieved the flying cars and robot butlers of futurist fantasies, but we do have a machine that can function as a typewriter and a printing press, a paintbrush and ..."
"Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner, Jeffrey Schnapp
. WE. LIvE. in one of those rare moments of opportunity for the humanities, not
unlike other great eras of cultural-historical transformation such as the shift from
the scroll to the codex, the ... to experimental forms of scholarship, and expertise
working with media, developing digital platforms, and engaging in design
practice. The first three chapters ..."
"Botters developed a small program that could let a player's character fish, equip
new bait, and continue, unaided by the player. Periodically, the player would then
buy more bait and sell the accumulated fish. Players could allegedly start the bot
before going to sleep, have it work overnight, and wake up to an inventory
waiting to be sold. Other players, upset at the practice, complained loudly to
Square Enix. At first Square Enix ..."
"Today the human impact on our planet can hardly be underestimated. Climate change, population explosion, genetic manipulation, digital networks, plastic islands floating in the oceans. This book explores our changing notion of nature. How nature has become one of the most successful products of our time, much of what we perceive as nature is merely a simulation although a romanticized idea of a balanced, harmonic, inherently good and th ..."