Putting Knowledge to Work and Letting Information Play / edited by Timothy W. Luke, Jeremy Hunsinger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Luke, Timothy W.

Hunsinger, Jeremy.

Series:

Transdisciplinary Studies ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education.

Local Subjects:

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2012.

Place of Publication:

Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

These collected papers are critical reflections about the rapid digitalization of discourse and culture. This disruptive change in communicative interaction has swept rapidly through major universities, nation states, learned disciplines, leading businesses, and government agencies during the past decade. To commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture (CDDC) at Virginia Tech, which has been a pioneering leader for many of these changes in university settings, the contributors to this volume examine the transformative implications of digitalizing discourse and culture inside and outside of the academic arena. These technologies of digitalization have created new communities of users, which are highly engaged with their new communicative possibilities, informational content, and discursive forms. Few have asked what these changes will mean, and many of the most important voices engaged in debates about this critical transformation are gathered here in this volume. Each author in his or her own way considers what accepting digital discourse and informational culture now means for contemporary economies, governments, and societies.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Timothy W. Luke and Jeremy Hunsinger

Introduction / Timothy W. Luke and Jeremy Hunsinger

The Book Unbound / Ben Agger

Fluid Notes on Liquid Books / Gary Hall

What Can Technology Teach us About Texts? (And Texts About Technology?) / Jean-Claude Guédon

Open Works, Open Cultures, and Open Learning Systems / Michael A. Peters

Textscapes and Landscapes / Brian Opie

Reweaving the World / Timothy W. Luke

Electronic Theses and Dissertations / Edward A. Fox , Gail Mcmillan and Venkat Srinivasan

From Gunny Sacks to Mattress Vine / Sue Thomas

The Pleasures of Collaboration / Thom Swiss

Info-Citizens / Timothy W. Luke and Jeremy Hunsinger

The New River / Ed Falco and Et Al

On the Origins of the Cute as a Dominant Aesthetic Category in Digital Culture / D.E. Wittkower

Culture, Media, Globalization / Mark Poster

Barack Obama and Celebrity Spectacle / Douglas Kellner

A Short History of the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture / Jeremy Hunsinger

Digital Research and Tenure and Promotion in Colleges of Arts and Sciences / Theodore R. Schatzki

Contributors / Timothy W. Luke and Jeremy Hunsinger.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

9789460917271

9460917275

9789460917288

9460917283

OCLC:

811772340