Digital Samaritans : rhetorical delivery and engagement in the digital humanities / Jim Ridolfo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ridolfo, Jim, 1979- author.

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Series:

Digital rhetoric collaborative

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Samaritans--Historiography.

Samaritans.

Learning and scholarship--Technological innovations.

Learning and scholarship.

Library materials--Digitization.

Library materials.

Tsedaka, Benyamim.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 164 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Other Title:

Rhetorical delivery and engagement in the digital humanities

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2015.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Digital Samaritans explores rhetorical delivery and cultural sovereignty in the digital humanities. The exigence for the book is rooted in a practical digital humanities project based on the digitization of manuscripts in diaspora for the Samaritan community, the smallest religious/ ethnic group of 770 Samaritans split between Mount Gerizim in the Palestinian Authority and in Holon, Israel. Based on interviews with members of the Samaritan community and archival research, Digital Samaritans explores what some Samaritans want from their diaspora of manuscripts, and how their rhetorical goals and objectives relate to the contemporary existential and rhetorical situation of the Samaritans as a living, breathing people. How does the circulation of Samaritan manuscripts, especially in digital environments, relate to their rhetorical circumstances and future goals and objectives to communicate their unique cultural history and religious identity to their neighbors and the world? Digital Samaritans takes up these questions and more as it presents a case for collaboration and engaged scholarship situated at the intersection of rhetorical studies and the digital humanities. Book jacket.

Contents:

Preface: Rhetorical serendipity

Introduction to Digital Samaritans

Between the raindrops and two fires: a brief history of the Samaritans and their diaspora of manuscripts

From parchment to bytes: digital delivery as a rhetorical strategy

Leveraging textual diaspora: rhetoric and the digital humanities as engaged scholarship

The Good Samaritan: at the crossroads of rhetoric and the digital humanities

Appendix A: Transcripts

Appendix B: Images of Seven Principles document

Appendix C: Benyamim Tsedaka's call for the repatriation of artifacts.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472121335

0472121332

9780472900077

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access