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Digital Culture and the Hermeneutic Tradition: Suspicion, Trust, and Dialogue

Inge van de Ven & Lucie Chateau
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003372790

In our infor­ma­tion age, decid­ing what sources and voic­es to trust is a press­ing mat­ter. There seems to be a sur­plus of both trust and dis­trust in and on plat­forms, both of which often amount to hav­ing your mind­set remain the same. Can we move beyond this dichoto­my toward new forms of inter­sub­jec­tive dia­logue? This book reval­u­ates the hermeneu­tic tra­di­tion for the dig­i­tal con­text. Today, hermeneu­tics has migrat­ed from a range of aca­d­e­m­ic approach­es into a pletho­ra of prac­tices in dig­i­tal cul­ture at large. We pro­pose a ‘scaled read­ing’ of such prac­tices: a recon­fig­u­ra­tion of the hermeneu­tic cir­cle, using dif­fer­ent tools and tech­niques of read­ing. We demon­strate our dig­i­tal-hermeneu­tic approach through case stud­ies includ­ing tox­ic depres­sion memes, the John­ny Depp/Amber Heard tri­al, and r/changemyview. We cov­er three dimen­sions of hermeneu­tic prac­tice: sus­pi­cion, trust, and dia­logue. This book is essen­tial read­ing for (under)graduate stu­dents in dig­i­tal human­i­ties and lit­er­ary stud­ies.

Digital Humanities in precarious times

Mir­na Nel, Phil van Schalk­wyk, Abio­dun Salawu, Gilbert Mot­saathebe, Gus­tav But­ler (Hrsg.)
https://doi.org/10.4102/aosis.2024.BK466

In a mod­ern and fast-evolv­ing tech­no­log­i­cal world, pre­car­i­ty has become more notable. Dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion has ush­ered in an era of ‘datafi­ca­tion’, pro­found­ly impact­ing soci­eties and indi­vid­u­als in such a way that there are emerg­ing com­plex­i­ties and poten­tial vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties in our inter­ac­tions with tech­nol­o­gy. Thus, it is cru­cial that the Human­i­ties sub­jects focus on human beings, their cul­ture and val­ues.

This book focus­es on the chal­lenges and oppor­tu­ni­ties expe­ri­enced in the Dig­i­tal Human­i­ties. The main the­sis of this book is on Dig­i­tal Human­i­ties in pre­car­i­ous times, while also report­ing on top­ics and research meth­ods in a vari­ety of Human­i­ties sub­ject fields. Dig­i­tal Human­i­ties is a dynam­ic mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary, inter­dis­ci­pli­nary and trans­dis­ci­pli­nary field that encom­pass­es a wide array of dis­ci­plines, method­olo­gies and approach­es. It rep­re­sents a fusion of com­pu­ta­tion­al meth­ods with human­is­tic inquiry, lever­ag­ing tech­nol­o­gy to explore and analyse var­i­ous facets of human cul­ture, soci­ety and his­to­ry.

At its core, this field’s nature allows schol­ars from diverse back­grounds – includ­ing lit­er­a­ture, his­to­ry, lin­guis­tics, cul­tur­al stud­ies and more – to col­lab­o­rate and engage in inno­v­a­tive research projects that tran­scend tra­di­tion­al dis­ci­pli­nary bound­aries. All the chap­ters in this book rep­re­sent a schol­ar­ly dis­course and pro­vide orig­i­nal research, they are based on dif­fer­ent method­olo­gies rang­ing from an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary approach, a philo­soph­i­cal desk study, case stud­ies, qual­i­ta­tive stud­ies and a semi-struc­tured sur­vey.

The Hybrid Face: Paradoxes of the Visage in the Digital Era

Mas­si­mo Leone (Hrsg.)
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003380047

This orig­i­nal and inter­dis­ci­pli­nary vol­ume explores the con­tem­po­rary semi­otic dimen­sions of the face from both sci­en­tif­ic and socio­cul­tur­al per­spec­tives, putting for­ward sev­er­al tra­di­tions, aspects, and signs of the human utopia of cre­at­ing a hybrid face.

The book semi­ot­i­cal­ly delves into the mul­ti­fac­eted realm of the dig­i­tal face, explor­ing its bio­log­i­cal and social func­tions, the con­cept of masks, the impact of COVID-19, AI sys­tems, dig­i­tal por­trai­ture, sym­bol­ic faces in films, viral com­mu­ni­ca­tion, alien depic­tions, per­son­hood in video games, online inti­ma­cy, and dig­i­tal memo­ri­als. The human face is increas­ing­ly liv­ing a life that is not only that of the bio­log­i­cal body but also that of its dig­i­tal avatar, spread through a myr­i­ad of new chan­nels and trans­formable through fil­ters, post-pro­duc­tions, dig­i­tal cos­met­ics, all the way to the cre­ation of deep­fakes. The dig­i­tal face express­es new and large­ly unknown mean­ings, which this book explores and ana­lyzes through an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary but sys­tem­at­ic approach.

The vol­ume will inter­est researchers, schol­ars, and advanced stu­dents who are inter­est­ed in dig­i­tal human­i­ties, com­mu­ni­ca­tion stud­ies, semi­otics, visu­al stud­ies, visu­al anthro­pol­o­gy, cul­tur­al stud­ies, and, broad­ly speak­ing, inno­v­a­tive approach­es about the mean­ing of the face in present-day dig­i­tal soci­eties.