Digitisation: Theories and Concepts for Empirical Cultural Research

ISBN-13: 9780367874599 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 310 str.

Gertraud Koch

Opis

In recent years, digital technologies have become pervasive in academic and everyday life. This comprehensive volume covers a wide range of concepts for studying the new cultural dynamics that are evident as a result of digitization. It considers how the cultural changes triggered by digitization processes can be approached empirically.  The c

Spis treści

Introduction: Digitisation as challenge for empirical cultural research  1. Cultural techniques, practices, programmes: How to study the anthropo-logic of digitisation  2. Archive  3. Imperfect imaginaries: Digitisation, mundanisation, and the ungraspable  4. Ethnography of digital infrastructures  5. Hackers and hacking  6. 'A brilliant copy every time!': Aspects of a cultural proportion  7. The manifestation of mash-up categories  8. Big Data  9. From GUI to No-UI: Locating the interface for the Internet of Things  10. Ubiquitous computing and the Internet of Things  11. Calculating spaces: Digital encounters with maps and geodata  12. Augmented realities  13. The political economy of digital technologies: Outlining an emerging field of research  14. Ludification of culture: The significance of play and games in everyday practices of the digital era  15. Media genealogy: Back to the present of digital cultures

O autorze

Gertraud Koch is a Professor and Head of Institute of European Ethnology / Cultural Anthropology at the University of Hamburg, Germany.