How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (770 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0226321428 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 296 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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With a rift growing between digital scholarship and its print-based counterpart, Hayles argues for contemporary technogenesis—the belief that humans and technics are coevolving—and advocates for what she calls comparative media studies, a new approach to locating digital work within print traditions and vice versa.Hayles examines the evolution of the field from the traditional humanities and how the digital humanities are changing academic scholarship, research, teaching, and publication. As the age of print passes and new technologies appear every day, this proposition has become far more complicated, particularly for the traditionally print-based disciplines in the humanities and qualitative social sciences. In addition to illustrating w
Amazon Customer said More of the SAME. In this book, Hayles revisits a lot of what she has written before. Her views on the attention span of millenials and beyond are astute, but there's not much by way of new material in this book.I am a fan of Hayles, so that's kind of hard for me to say. She basically recommends that instructors at the college level meet computer-generation students where they are--that is--in a place of competition for their attention, divided and multiplied tasking, and a questionable ability to deeply consider, think, analyze, and otherwise closely "r. How we change thinking through technology Digital era has come and is changing how we relate with universe and culture. There are acid critics who bemoans superficiality in reading and learning, for instance, as there are enthusiasts who see a way to redeem humanity. Twitter with 1How we change thinking through technology Pedro Demo Digital era has come and is changing how we relate with universe and culture. There are acid critics who bemoans superficiality in reading and learning, for instance, as there are enthusiasts who see a way to redeem humanity. Twitter with 140 characters brought uneasy to academy - is this text’s future? Hayles tries to show that technological change makes ruptures and continuities; it’s not clever simply to resist or to adopt, since technology is our natural environment. We would to better if we take technology with selfcrit. 0 characters brought uneasy to academy - is this text’s future? Hayles tries to show that technological change makes ruptures and continuities; it’s not clever simply to resist or to adopt, since technology is our natural environment. We would to better if we take technology with selfcrit
Katherine Hayles’s characteristically lucid technical explanations and virtuosic literary analyses, this book navigates the divide between the traditional and digital humanities and shows us how they might in fact intellectually stimulate and support each other. A discipline supposedly in crisis has never seemed so vibrant.”—Rita Raley, University of California, Santa Barbara. “How We Think offers a comprehensive account of how humanities scholars and students apprehend their work differently in the context of the digital turn. The perfect fusion of N