Contemporary Culture
Judith Thissen
Contemporary Culture
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Are the humanities still relevant in the twenty-first century? In the context of pervasive economic liberalism and shrinking budgets due to a deep and prolonged recession, the exigency of humanities research for society is increasingly put into question. This volume claims that the humanities do indeed matter by offering empirically-grounded critical reflections on contemporary cultural practices, thereby opening up new ways of understanding social life and new directions in humanities scholarship.

Zijn de geesteswetenschappen nog steeds relevant? In deze publicatie wordt betoogd dat de geesteswetenschappen hun betekenis voor de samenleving kunnen terugwinnen door het stellen van nieuwe vragen en door het komen met nieuwe antwoorden.

In de essays in dit boek wordt onderzocht hoe sinds de jaren negentig in elkaar grijpende processen van mediatisering, globalisering en commercialisering de culturele praktijk, sociaal gedrag en het gevoel van solidariteit hebben gevormd.

Language
English
ISBN
978-90-8964-474-9
ContemporaryCulture New Directions in Arts and Humanities Research
Contents
Introduction
Part i Media Cities
Chapter One Mediacity: On the Discontinuous Continuity of the Urban Public Sphere
Chapter Two Orkontros: Brazilian Migrants, Social Network Sites and the European City
Chapter Three Imagining the City: The Difference that Art Makes
Chapter Four Body Movies: The City as Interface
Part ii The Ludic Turn
Chapter Five Homo Ludens 2.0: Play, Media and Identity
Chapter Six Digital Cartographies as Playful Practices
Chapter Seven From Gengsi to Gaul: Mobile Media and Playful Identities
Chapter Eight Transformations in Perception and Participation: Digital Games
Chapter Nine Machinima: Moving on the Edge of Rules and Fiction
Part iii Thinking Analogue
Chapter Ten Sound Technologies and Cultural Practices: How Analogies Make us Listen to Transformations in Art and Culture
Chapter Eleven The Case of ccMixter: Credit-Giving within a Communal Online Remixing Practice
Part iv Hybrid Practices
Chapter Twelve On the Need for Cooperation between Art and Science
Chapter Thirteen Laboratory on the Move in Retrospect
Chapter Fourteen Embedded in the Dutch Art World
Chapter Fifteen Roots and the Production of Heritage
Chapter Sixteen How to Succeed in Art and Science: The Observatory Observed
Part v Looking Back, Looking Forward
Introduction
Interview with José van Dijck and Robert Zwijnenberg
About the Authors
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