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Hypercities

Hypercities

Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities

Todd Presner, David Shepard, Yoh Kawano

216 pages, parution le 22/07/2014

Résumé

The prefix "hyper" refers to multiplicity and abundance. More than a physical space, a hypercity is a real city overlaid with information networks that document the past, catalyze the present, and project future possibilities. Hypercities are always under construction.

Todd Presner, David Shepard, and Yoh Kawano put digital humanities theory into practice to chart the proliferating cultural records of places around the world. A digital platform transmogrified into a book, it explains the ambitious online project of the same name that maps the historical layers of city spaces in an interactive, hypermedia environment. The authors examine the media archaeology of Google Earth and the cultural-historical meaning of map projections, and explore recent events-the "Arab Spring" and the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster-through social media mapping that incorporates data visualizations, photographic documents, and Twitter streams. A collaboratively authored and designed work, HyperCities includes a "ghost map" of downtown Los Angeles, polyvocal memory maps of LA's historic Filipinotown, avatar-based explorations of ancient Rome, and hour-by-hour mappings of the Tehran election protests of 2009.

Not a book about maps in the literal sense, HyperCities describes thick mapping: the humanist project of participating and listening that transforms mapping into an ethical undertaking. Ultimately, the digital humanities do not consist merely of computer-based methods for analyzing information. They are a means of integrating scholarship with the world of lived experience, making sense of the past in the layered spaces of the present for the sake of the open future.

L'auteur - Todd Presner

Todd Presner is Sady & Ludwig Kahn Director of the Center for Jewish Studies, Professor of Germanic Languages and Comparative Literature, and Chair of the Digital Humanities Program at the University of California, Los Angeles.

L'auteur - David Shepard

David Shepard is Lead Academic Programmer at the Center for Digital Humanities at the University of California, Los Angeles.

L'auteur - Yoh Kawano

Yoh Kawano is Campus GIS Coordinator at the Institute for Digital Research and Education and lecturer in the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Éditeur(s) Harvard University Press
Auteur(s) Todd Presner, David Shepard, Yoh Kawano
Parution 22/07/2014
Nb. de pages 216
Couverture Broché
Intérieur Quadri
EAN13 9780674725348
ISBN13 978-0-6747-2534-8

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