scholarly journals In the Digital Age, Preserving the Print of the Past

2013 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
John Connolly
Keyword(s):  
Full Advantage ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
National Endowment ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
The Past

For the past 20 years, a project at the Library of Virginia in Richmond has been laboring to find and preserve a form of media communication that has been waning: Virginia’s newspapers. Under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Virginia Newspaper Project (VNP) was established at the Library of Virginia in 1993 and continues its work today though it has evolved in order to take full advantage of the latest technology.

scholarly journals Internet Memes: Leaflet Propaganda of the Digital Age

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Troy Nieubuurt
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Cognitive Biases ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
The Past ◽  
International Borders

Internet memes are one of the latest evolutions of “leaflet” propaganda and an effective tool in the arsenal of digital persuasion. In the past such items were dropped from planes, now they find their way into social media across multiple platforms and their territory is global. Internet memes can be used to target specific groups to help build and solidify tribal bonds. Due to the ease of creation, and their ability to constantly reaffirm axiomatic tribal ideas, they have become an adroit tool allowing for mass influence across international borders. This text explores the link between internet memes and their ability to “hack” the attention of anyone connected to internet using dense modality and cognitive biases. Furthermore, the text discusses Internet meme's ability sew discord by consistently reaffirming preexisting tribal bonds and their relation to traditional PSYOP tactics initially used for analog leaflet propaganda.

Through the Time Barrier: Art and Design in the Digital Age

APRIA Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-50
Author(s):  
Marijke Goeting
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Fundamental Problem ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Fast Computation ◽  
Process Data ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
The Past ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
The World ◽  
Time Frames

During the past decade, computers have broken through the barrier of human time. Today, computers can process data in milli-, micro- and even nanoseconds and can (inter) act autonomously in time frames that exceed our capacity to perceive and respond to. This produces a fundamental problem – a gap between human time and the time of computers – and raises important questions: how do big data and fast computation affect our experience and understanding of time? If a computer is able to deal with the world faster than we can, are we doomed to live forever in the past, however near the present? Or are we dealing with a technological extension of the present, and how might we be able to understand and experience this? By analysing theory and works of art, this text examines how to deal with the shock produced by microtemporal technologies.

Teaching New Dogs Old Tricks

2019 ◽  
pp. 479-496
Author(s):  
Neal Duckworth ◽  
Eugenie de Silva
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Physical Protection ◽  
The Past

This chapter discusses how the basics of espionage have remained the same, even in the digital age. The pendulum of espionage--and protection from it--has swung wide over the past century. Different public and private sectors have renewed focus on not only cyber protections, but on increased physical protection of critical assets and ensuring trusted personnel in the workforce. Within this chapter, the authors review the basics of protecting critical assets to ensure that changes in espionage can be mitigated at an early stage. While the techniques of espionage have many variables, especially in a digital age, the authors have established that the use of a risk assessment that focuses on identifying the threats, the specific variables or methods of espionage, and developing and implementing mitigation measures is of the utmost importance.

Teaching New Dogs Old Tricks

2016 ◽  
pp. 78-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neal Duckworth ◽  
Eugenie de Silva
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Physical Protection ◽  
The Past

This chapter discusses how the basics of espionage have remained the same, even in the digital age. The pendulum of espionage--and protection from it--has swung wide over the past century. Different public and private sectors have renewed focus on not only cyber protections, but on increased physical protection of critical assets and ensuring trusted personnel in the workforce. Within this chapter, the authors review the basics of protecting critical assets to ensure that changes in espionage can be mitigated at an early stage. While the techniques of espionage have many variables, especially in a digital age, the authors have established that the use of a risk assessment that focuses on identifying the threats, the specific variables or methods of espionage, and developing and implementing mitigation measures is of the utmost importance.

Colors of the Past: Archive, Art, and Amnesia in a Digital Age

2019 ◽  
Vol 124 (5) ◽  
pp. 1771-1781
Author(s):  
Santanu Das
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
World War ◽  
The Past ◽  
Western Front ◽  
Gains And Losses

Abstract This roundtable offers four diverse perspectives on Peter Jackson’s innovative and controversial World War I documentary film They Shall Not Grow Old (2018). Jackson’s film breaks the mold of the documentary genre in its manipulation and montage of the visual and audio archives held at the Imperial War Museum in London. Yet he puts his technical virtuosity and resources at the service of a very traditional interpretation of the war, focusing almost entirely on the experience of young Englishmen on the Western Front. Scholars Santanu Das, Susan R. Grayzel, Jessica Meyer, and Catherine Robson offer their reflections on both the gains and losses of Jackson’s paradoxical original use of historical documents and old-fashioned rendering of the war’s experiential elements. They consider, respectively, the experience of colonial troops, the place of women in the war, and Jackson’s creative, if controversial, interpretation of the visual and aural archive.

scholarly journals Prospects for Fibreoptics in Future Telescope Instrumentation

1984 ◽  
Vol 79 ◽  
pp. 617-635 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn Lund
Keyword(s):  
Full Advantage ◽  
Optical Fibre ◽  
Optical Systems ◽  
Optical Fibres ◽  
Astronomical Instrumentation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Single Instrument

The importance and applied use of fibreoptics in astronomy has received rapidly growing attention in the past 5 years, particularly for instrumentation where the lightness, flexibility and simplicity of fibres, compared with classical optical systems, can be exploited to full advantage.Angel and Angel et al, who seem to be the first to have used an optical fibre to link a telescope to an instrument, also made the first proposal for the construction of a VLT (FLOAT) consisting of 40 independent mirrors linked to a single instrument via optical fibres. Since that time many authors, including Connes, Serkowski et al, Hubbard et al, Heacox, Hill et al, Vanderriest, Courtes, Tubbs et al, Gray, Lund et al, Schiffer, Watson et al, Vanderriest et al, and Felenbock et al, have proposed or reported various applications involving fibres with astronomical instrumentation.

Jewish Libraries and Archives in America

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-30
Author(s):  
Pearl Berger
Keyword(s):  
Digital Age ◽  
Jewish Immigration ◽  
The Past ◽  
Look Back ◽  
The Future ◽  
350Th Anniversary

In celebration of the occasion of the 350th anniversary of Jewish immigration to America, this paper takes a look back and then looks forward, highlighting both achievements and challenges in the realms of Jewish libraries and archives as well as their associated professions. The paper scans the past fifty years, since the tercentenary in 1954, pointing to evidence of much growth and expansion. It then proceeds to discuss areas of development for the future, taking into account opportunities presented by the digital age.

scholarly journals Traditional dialect dictionary in the digital age (on example of «Arkhangelsk Regional Dictionary»)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina B. Kachinskaya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Age ◽  
The Past ◽  
Audio Recordings

The report will examine the past, present and future of the «Arkhangelsk Regional Dictionary». In the digital age, the nature of collecting materials for the dialect dictionary has changed: instead of field notebooks with recordings "by ear", audio recordings are transcribed. All materials are processed on a computer. Instead of a paper card file, an "electronic card file" appeared. Instead of "paper" dictionaries, their electronic counterparts will soon appear.

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