A History of Place in the Digital Age

ISBN-13: 9780367661502 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 172 str.

Stuart Dunn

Opis

A History of Place in the Digital Age explores the history and impact of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and related digital mapping technologies in humanities research.

Spis treści

List of figures; Acknowledgements; 1. Spatial Humanities in the Digital Age: The Key Debates; 2. The longue durée of the spatial humanities: Part I; 3. The longue durée of the spatial humanities: Part II: The Case of Archaeology; 4. Text and Place; 5. Spatial Humanities and Neogeography; 6. Spatial narrative; 7. The Structure of Geodata; 8. Motion in place; Conclusion; Index

O autorze

Stuart Dunn is Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities at King's College London, UK, where he has worked since 2006. He holds a PhD in Aegean Bronze Age Archaeology from the University of Durham, UK, and has interests in the history of cartography, crowdsourcing in the humanities (with a special emphasis on Volunteered Geographic Information, or VGI), and the Spatial Humanities. Most recently he has worked on the heritage of Cyprus and spatial approaches to the study of art history. His work has been funded by the AHRC, the A. G. Leventis Foundation and the Getty Foundation; and as well as being an active researcher, Dunn has developed innovative teaching modules in GIS and the humanities in KCL’s MA programmes. In 2017, he co-authored the first major book-length study of academic crowdsourcing in the humanities. He has also been a Visiting Scholar in Stanford University's Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis's Spatial History project since 2014 (USA).