Using documents : a multidisciplinary approach to document theory / Gerald Hartung, Frederik Schlupkothen, and Karl-Heinrich Schmidt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hartung, Gerald, author.

Schlupkothen, Frederik, author.

Schmidt, Karl-Heinrich, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Written communication.

Written communication--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2022]

Summary:

Using Documents presents an interdisciplinary discussion of human communication by means of documents, e.g., letters. Cultural scientists, together with researchers from media science and media engineering, analyze questions of document modeling, including a document’s contexts of use, on the basis of cultural theory. The research also concerns the debate on the material turn in the fields of cultural studies and media studies. Looking back on existing work, texts on written communication by the philosopher and sociologist Georg Simmel and by an interdisciplinary French group of authors under the pseudonym Roger T. Pédauque are taken as a starting point and presented afresh. A look ahead to the future is also attempted. Whereas the modeling (including technical modeling) of documents has to date largely been limited to the description of output forms and specific content, the foundations are laid here for including documents’ contexts of use in models that are grounded in cultural theory.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

Part I: Introduction

Preface

Document Theory

Part II: Using Documents

The Document as Cultural Form

From Manuscript to Printed Book

Documenting as a Communicative Form

Legibility and Viewability

A Semiotic Perspective on the Ontology of Documents and Multimodal Textuality

Part III: Background

Simmel’s Excursus on Written Communication

Document: Form, Sign, and Medium, as Reformulated by Digitization

List of Contributors

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-11-078088-7

OCLC:

1344540809