Screen LibraryHyperCities : thick mapping in the digital humanities /
Not a book about maps in the literal sense, HyperCities describes thick mapping: the humanist project of participating and listening that transforms mapping into an ethical undertaking. Ultimately, the digital humanities do not consist merely of computer-based methods for analyzing information. They...
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Harvard University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| Publication Dates: | 2014 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Not a book about maps in the literal sense, HyperCities describes thick mapping: the humanist project of participating and listening that transforms mapping into an ethical undertaking. Ultimately, the digital humanities do not consist merely of computer-based methods for analyzing information. They are a means of integrating scholarship with the world of lived experience, making sense of the past in the layered spaces of the present for the sake of the open future."--pub. desc. |
| Carrier Form: | 210 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm. |
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9780674725348 (alkaline paper) : 0674725344 (alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | AZ186 |
| CLC: | C37 |
| Call Number: | C37/P934 |
| Contents: | Lexicon: HyperCities ; Thick mapping ; Digital humanities -- The humanities in the digital humanities: HyperCities: a very brief history ; Thick mapping in the digital humanities -- Windows: Los Angeles ghost maps ; PDub productions: mapping hifi -- The view from above/below: Toward a media archaeology of Google Earth ; Counter mapping ; Georeferencing: "it is turtles all the way down" -- Windows: Rome: jumping over the line ; Mapping the 2009 election protests in Tehran -- Mapping events/mapping social media: Participatory digital humanities ; On the event: HyperCities now (Eqypt, Libya, Ja |