scholarly journals TOWARDS A VIRTUAL ART/ARCHAEOLOGY

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Reilly ◽  
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Ian Dawson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Personal Computing ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
Virtual Archaeology ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Archaeological Landscape

The term Virtual Archaeology was coined 30 years ago when personal computing and the first wave of digital devices and associated technologies became generally available to field archaeologists (Reilly 1991; 1992). The circumstances that led to the origin of Virtual Archaeology have been recounted elsewhere. Put briefly, Virtual Archaeology was intended for reflexive archaeological practitioners “to be a generative concept and a provocation allowing for creative and playful improvisation around the potential adoption or adaptation of any new digital technology in fieldwork; in other words to explore how new digital tools could enable, and shape, new methodological insights and interpretation, that is new practices” (Beale, Reilly 2017). Digital creativity in archaeology and cultural heritage continues to flourish, and we can still stand by these aspirations. However, in 2021, the definition and extent of this implied “archaeological” community of practice and its assumed authority seems too parochial. Moreover, the archaeological landscape is not under the sole purview of archaeologists or cultural heritage managers. Consequently, experimentation with novel modes and methods of engagement, the creation of new forms of analysis, and different ways of knowing this landscape, are also not their sole prerogative. This applies equally to Virtual Archaeology and digital creativity in the realm of cultural heritage more generally. We assert that other affirmative digitally creative conceptions of, and engagements with, artefacts, virtual archaeological landscapes and cultural heritage assemblages – in their broadest sense – are possible if we are willing to adopt other perspectives and diffract them through contrasting disciplinary points of view and approaches. In this paper we are specifically concerned with interlacing artistic and virtual archaeology practices within the realm of imaging, part of something we call Virtual Art/Archaeology.

Use of ICT and Digital Technology to Conserve India's Cultural Heritage

2021 ◽  
pp. 457-477
Author(s):  
T. K. Gireesh Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Knowledge Content

The heritage of any place is required to be conserved, documented, and protected to the extent possible for the benefit of future generations to retain its culture, pride, and traditions. Advancements in information, communication, and digital technologies have considerably extended supports in identifying, preserving, and managing cultural heritage items. The use of web-based applications and digital tools plays a significant role in preserving and sharing cultural assets. This chapter proposes the importance of building a comprehensive cultural heritage information system for preserving and conserving the cultural heritages pertaining to one of the UNESCO's world listed cultural heritages in India named Agra Fort. The researcher highlights the opportunities and the need for conserving the knowledge content of the heritage items associated with Agra Fort.

Using digital technology for collective ethnographic observation: an experiment on ‘coming home’

2010 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 445-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoine Cordelois
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Functional Coupling ◽  
Home Automation ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Ethnographic Observation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Collaborative Analysis ◽  
The Impact ◽  
At Home

In this article, we use digital technologies (the Subcam and Webdiver) to capture, share and analyze collectively specific user experience. We examine the transition between ‘outside’ and ‘inside’ when people come home, and the steps needed to build the ‘being-at-home’ feeling. Understanding what ‘being at home’ means for the subject is part of our larger project of analyzing the impact of home automation. We provide a model which describes the relation between the home and its inhabitant as instrumental ‘functional coupling’, which, when achieved, provides the ‘at home’ feeling. This article illustrates how digital tools can make the ethnographic approach a collaborative analysis of human experience.

Image in the Making

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Thomson-Jones
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Digital Art ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Video Installation ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Fundamental Distinction ◽  
Net Art ◽  
Do So

Human beings have always made images, and to do so they have developed and refined an enormous range of artistic tools and materials. With the development of digital technology, the ways of making images—whether they are still or moving, 2D or 3D—have evolved at an unprecedented rate. At every stage of image making, artists now face a choice between using analog and using digital tools. Yet a digital image need not look digital; and likewise, a handmade image or traditional photograph need not look analog. If we do not see the artist’s choice between the analog and the digital, what difference can this choice make for our appreciation of images in the digital age? Image in the Making answers this question by accounting for the fundamental distinction between the analog and the digital; by explicating the technological realization of this distinction in image-making practice; and by exploring the creative possibilities that are distinctive of the digital. The case is made for a new kind of appreciation in the digital age. In appreciating the images involved in every digital art form—from digital video installation to net art to digital cinema—there is a basic truth that we cannot ignore: the nature and technology of the digital expands both what an image can be as an image and what an image can be for us.

Improvements on the truth

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-83
Author(s):  
Damian Gascoigne
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Digital Animation ◽  
2D Animation ◽  
Analogue To Digital

My drawn animation practice has always focused on the gestural mark and messy materiality. This article is about what happened to that practice in the transition from analogue to digital animation, questioning what was lost forever and what might still be worth fighting for. This practitioner’s account of a ‘before digital, after digital’ career describes the experience of making work, as work itself changed forever. Ushered in with little reflection or resistance in the mid-1990s, the new digital doctrine slowly consumed hand-drawn 2D animation production to the point where few but the most determined independent makers keep this vital practice alive. My contention is that a reckoning on why and how we engage with digital technology is long overdue. The article will set out why – after working with digital tools for more than twenty years – I have now abandoned all but the most cursory engagement with new media tools and taken the long walk back to a material analogue practice. The ideas under discussion here can be traced back to one overriding concern – the unsolvable relationship between movement in drawing and drawing for movement. This dichotomy is unique to 2D animation, because freedom of gesture in drawing does not produce continuity of movement in animation. Mining this seam drives my independent animation practice as I try to reconcile the page and the frame.

scholarly journals DIGITAL LITERACY AMONG CHILDREN IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-170
Author(s):  
Hario Bismo Kuntarto ◽  
Amit Prakash
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Elementary Schools ◽  
School Children ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Elementary School Children ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Internet Service ◽  
Digital Devices

The use of digital devices by children is on the rise and a better understanding of their usage behaviour can be helpful in designing better ways of imparting education. As per data from the Indonesia Internet Service Provider Association (APJII), in 2018, almost 50% of elementary school children were using the internet. However, an introduction to digital technologies is not included under the topics covered in state elementary schools in Indonesia. Field work involving teachers and children in state and non-state elementary schools, officials in ministries, ICT vendors, parents were conducted through interviews, observations and workshops related to the use of digital technology to better understand the digital behaviour of children. It was found that elementary school children get exposed to digital technology at a very early age and while the duration of use varies according to parental involvement and awareness, the content consumed by children is, in most cases, not appropriate for their age. This study illustrates that monitoring digital use among children is currently a challenge for parents, and digital literacy, which includes introduction to both positive and negative effects of digital devices as well as appropriate digital use behaviour, should become an important part of the theme of learning in elementary schools in Indonesia to ensure digital technologies help in the shaping of children's attitudes and character, in a manner that is valued and beneficial to the society. Kata Kunci: literasi digital, pemanfaatan digital oleh anak sekolah dasar, pengenalan digital pada anak   Abstract – Use of digital devices by children is on the rise and a better understanding of their usage behaviour can be helpful in designing better ways of imparting education. As per data from the Indonesia Internet Service Provider Association (APJII), in 2018, almost 50% of elementary school children were using the internet. However, an introduction to digital technologies is not included under the topics covered in state elementary schools in Indonesia. Field work involving teachers and children in state and non-state elementary schools, officials in ministries, ICT vendors, parents were conducted over a six-month study period to better understand the digital behaviour of children. It was found that elementary school children get exposed to digital technology at a very early age and while the duration of use varies according to parental involvement and awareness, the content consumed by children is, in most cases, not appropriate for their age. This study illustrates that monitoring digital use among children is currently a challenge for parents, and digital literacy, which includes introduction to both positive and negative effects of digital devices as well as appropriate digital use behaviour, should become an important part of the theme of learning in elementary schools in Indonesia to ensure digital technologies help in the shaping of children's attitudes and character, in a manner that is valued and beneficial to the society.

scholarly journals In the Tracks of the Reindeer: The Emotional Effects of Digital Information on Raindeer Herders

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-26
Author(s):  
Kajsa Kuoljok
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Gps Data ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Grazing Area ◽  
Emotional Effects ◽  
Partial Relation ◽  
The Way

Through a story about a reindeer that wandered off from its grazing area, this article explores the emotional effects mediated by digital technology. It concerns the way in which reindeer movements are made visible through the use of digital tools. As reindeer movements are documented by GPS (Global Positional Systems) technology and transformed into inscriptions, the movements become easier to observe. It makes a difference when herders can follow reindeer movements from above, instead of from the ground. New knowledge emerges with increased amounts of information. As GPS data makes reindeer movement visible, it creates a new, partial relation between seeing and knowing. The strong emotional effects that are induced by this relation on the herder are observed and described through a narrative of the reindeer that wandered into another Sámi community.

scholarly journals Assessment as Action Research: Bridging Academic Scholarship and Everyday Practice

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Informed Decision Making ◽  
Culture Of Evidence ◽  
Academic Scholarship ◽  
Scholarly Projects

"This introductory essay demonstrates that action research has a vital role in evidence informed practice in academic libraries. Scholarly projects like the ones described in thisspecial issue can support the development of a culture of evidence-informed decision making. Through the articles in this issue, readers can come to a deeper understanding ofaction research as a productive, appropriate, and rigorous way of knowing and generating knowledge. Action research studies, such as these, are effective means of buildinga profession’s ways of knowing, nurturing a community of practice, and generating legitimate and rigorous scholarship. We invite you to learn, through the thoughtfulcontributions of these authors, the value of this research approach as well as their results."

PELATIHAN DIGITAL BUSINESS BAGI CALON ENTREPRENEUR MUDA KOTA LHOKSEUMAWE DI MASA COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Falahuddin Falahuddin ◽  
Fuadi Fuadi ◽  
Munandar Munandar ◽  
Devi Andriyani ◽  
Arliansyah Arliansyah
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Economic Potential ◽  
Business Rules ◽  
Business Plans ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
Young Entrepreneurs

This service will provide an overview of entrepreneurship of small and medium enterprises using digital technology. From all points of view, be it motivation, business opportunities or ideas, as well as business rules according to sharia. During the current Covid-19 pandemic, it is very demanding for young people who already have business plans to adopt digital business tools more quickly to survive and develop in the new normal era. Therefore, prospective young entrepreneurs have great potential to be prepared to become excellent entrepreneurs, who will not only be economically independent, but will also develop regional economic potential which in turn will have a positive impact on the national economy. The purpose of this service is to overcome the problem of unemployment by the younger generation. The solutions we provide are in the form of training and providing motivation to develop and provide basic techniques for doing digital business, and do not forget to provide understanding to aspiring young entrepreneurs about doing business in an Islamic way as a form of development of the nation's.

Digital Technology in Kindergarten

2019 ◽  
pp. 1541-1560
Author(s):  
Vicki Schriever
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Early Childhood Teachers ◽  
Parental Expectations ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Early Childhood Teacher ◽  
Digital Devices

This chapter examines the literature surrounding digital technologies within kindergarten. It highlights the ways in which mobile devices and smart gadgets are used by early childhood teachers and young children in diverse teacher-focused and child-centred approaches. The challenges faced by early childhood teachers to successfully use and integrate mobile devices and smart gadgets within their kindergarten will be explored. These challenges include, meeting curriculum requirements, mediating parental expectations, seeing the potential of digital technologies, having the confidence and self-efficacy to use digital devices and determining the value and place of digital technologies within a play-based environment. Each of these challenges are explored within the chapter and the ways these challenges can be overcome are detailed. The opportunities which mobile devices and smart gadgets present to maximise young children's learning, play and engagement and which facilitate and support the role of the early childhood teacher will also be examined.

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