Contemporary culture : new directions in arts and humanities research / edited by Judith Thissen, Robert Zwijnenberg and Kitty Zijlmans.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thissen, Judith, 1962- editor.

Zwijnenberg, Robert, 1954- editor.

Zijlmans, Kitty, editor.

Series:

Transformations in art and culture.

Transformations in art and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and society.

Arts, Modern--20th century.

Arts, Modern.

Civilization, Modern--1950-.

Civilization, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Are the humanities still relevant in the twenty-first century? In the context of pervasive economic liberalism and shrinking budgets, the importance of humanities research for society is increasingly put into question. This volume claims that the humanities do indeed matter by offering empirically grounded critical reflections on contemporary cultural practices, thereby opening up new ways of understanding social life and new directions in humanities scholarship. The contributors argue that the humanities can regain their relevance for society, pose new questions and provide fresh answers, while maintaining their core values: critical reflection, historical consciousness and analytical distance.

Contents:

Mediacity : on the discontinuous continuity of the urban public sphere / René Boomkens

Orkontros : Brazilian migrants, social network sites and the European city / Martijn Oosterbaan

Imagining the city : the difference that art makes / Judith Vega

Body movies : the city as interface / Martijn de Waal

Homo Ludens 2.0 : play, media and identity / Valerie Frissen, Jos de Mul and Joost Raessens

Digital cartographies as playful practices / Sybille Lammes

From Gengsi to Gaul : moblie media and playful identities in Jakarta / Michiel de Lange

Transformations in perception and participation : digital games / Renée van de Vall

Machinima : moving on the edge of rules and fiction / René Glas

Sound technologies and cultural practices : how analogies make us listen to transformations in art and culture / Karin Bijsterveld [and others]

The case of ccMixter : credit-giving within a communal online remixing practice / Bas Jansen

On the need for cooperation between art and science / Robert Zwijnenberg

Laboratory on the move in retrospect / Ni Haifeng and Kitty Zijlmans

Embedded in the Dutch art world / Judith Thisssen

Roots and the production of heritage / Alex van Stipriaan

How to succeed in art and science : The observatory observed / Geert Somsen and Jeroen Werner

Interview with José van Dijck and Robert Zwijnenberg / Marcel ten Hooven.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Feb 2021).

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed October 02 2025)

ISBN:

1-003-69317-2

1-04-078608-1

90-485-1795-8

9781003693178

OCLC:

868474885