2. Recreating 19th-Century Stereography for a Scholarly Public

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiffany Chan
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Digital Archive ◽  
Digital Archives ◽  
The Past ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Early Photography

Current digital archives of stereocards, a popular form of early photography, offer only 2D scans of the cards' fronts. Such archives make large numbers of stereocards accessible, retrievable and searchable, but lack the informed, interpretive guidance that non-specialist users might expect. They also omit the information on stereocards' backs and privilege the photographs on the stereocards without attention to context or interpretation. Drawing on techniques of new media "edutainment," my virtual exhibit contextualizes and interprets stereocards from the Queen's University Special Collections Library in a way that is friendly to non-specialist audiences while organically promoting humanities research through features such as textual popups and hyperlinks to sources (where available online or in QCAT). Animated GIFs of the stereographs allow users to see the image in three dimensions—something that was available to a 19th-century audience but not necessarily to a 21st-century one. My project looks beyond the popular assumption that new media seeks, or should seek, to uncritically reproduce the experience of past media. Rather, I examine how new media allows us to be critical of past perspectives and biases in ways that were previously unavailable—while still remaining critical of my project's own limitations and potential biases. With the advent of digital media and the Digital Humanities, I argue that the time is ripe to rethink new media's relationship to old media and the past, as well as how to communicate this knowledge in ways that push beyond traditional notions of an academic digital archive.

scholarly journals Affordances of Digital Archives: The Case of the Prozhito Archive of Personal Diaries

2020 ◽  
pp. 371-387
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Kalinina
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Digital Archive ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
Digital Archives ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
The Past ◽  
Digital Media Studies

With regard to increasing politicization and instrumentalization of history in Russia and the development of digital tools allowing public access to previously non-available historical documents, analysis of digital platforms exhibiting potential for engagement with the past becomes of relevance to Russian and Digital Media Studies. Therefore this chapter focuses on a Russian case study Prozhito, a digital archive of personal diaries created by a community of volunteers. Being an example of public engagement with the past, Prozhito, nevertheless, has a number of constraints that raise ethical, political and techno-methodological questions concerning archival composition and affordances of the platform for participation. Therefore the aim of this chapter is to study Prozhito’s affordances to learn more about the potentials of such platforms for the production of historical knowledge.

scholarly journals Symboliska teknologier och lärande i en digital tid

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 168-183
Author(s):  
Roger Säljö
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Many ◽  
Past Half

During the past half-a-century the education sector has grown in size and significance in most parts of the world. In what is talked about as a knowledge or information society, the time spent in educational institutions increases. One of the most important game-changers for education, and for educational research, is digitization and the growing reliance on digital resources in most activities in our daily lives. One of the many consequences of this development is that children early on in their lives make use of and adapt to digital media. It is argued that in this new media ecology the classical questions we ask about access to education and success and failure will continue to be important for educational research. At the same time, education as a discipline should consider the profound ways in which our knowledge and skills rely on coordination with symbolic technologies; we increasingly know by and through such resources, and this insight should guide the development of instructional practices. In addition, we should contribute to a debate about what “Bildung” and critical citizenship should be in a world which is going increasingly digital.      

scholarly journals From Instant History to the Infinite Archive: Digital Archiving, Memory and the Practical Past at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

HISTOREIN ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Telles Da Silveira
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Computer Time ◽  
September 11 ◽  
Digital Archive ◽  
Historical Event ◽  
Digital Archives ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Digital Archiving ◽  
Social Time ◽  
Data Accumulation

The September 11 Digital Archive and Hurricane Memory Digital Bank, both developed by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM) of George Mason University, are among two of the best known and most successful digital archiving initiatives. Though relatively old by internet standards and no longer receiving new submissions, both present a new understanding of what an archive is and its role regarding memory in contemporary society. Digital archives represent a convergence of social time and computer time, thus speeding the production of memory until it is contemporary of the event itself. This stretches the historical event beyond its limits but also means that the archive is created along with the event – it is an instant archive, so to speak. This contribution ends with a discussion on data accumulation in relation to Hayden White's notion of the practical past.

scholarly journals Photo Filter Apps: Understanding Analogue Nostalgia in the New Media Ecology

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Caoduro
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Digital Evolution ◽  
Media Archaeology ◽  
The Past ◽  
Critical History ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Photo Sharing ◽  
History Of

As digital media have become more pervasive and entrenched in our daily routines, a nostalgic countertrend has increasingly valued the physical and tactile nature of the analogue image. In the past few years, technologically obsolete devices, such as lo-fi cameras and vinyl records, have not faded out of sight completely but are instead experiencing a comeback. At the same time, digital media capitalise on the nostalgia for the analogue and fetishise the retro aesthetics of old technologies. This article explores the emergence of photo filter and effect applications which allow users to modify digital photos, adding signifiers of age such as washed-out colours, scratches and torn borders. It is argued that these new technologies, with programs such as Instagram, Hipstamatic and Camera 360, bring back the illusory physicality of picture-taking through digital skeuomorphism. Drawing on media archaeology practice, this article interrogates the limits of the retro sensibility and the fetishisation of the past in the context of digital media, in particular by focusing on the case study of the start-up Instagram. This photo filter application neither merely stresses the twilight nature of photography nor represents the straightforward digital evolution of previous analogue features. Rather, it responds to the necessity to feel connected to the past by clear and valued signs of age, mimicking a perceived sense of loss. Faced with the persistent hipster culture and the newness of digital media, photo filter apps create comfortable memories, ageing pictures and adding personal value. As such, it will be argued that this phenomenon of nostalgia for analogue photography can be linked to the concepts of ritual and totem. By providing a critical history of Instagram as a photo-sharing social network, this article aims to explain new directions in the rapidly changing system of connective media.

scholarly journals NASKAH BETAWI: SKRIPTORIUM DAN DEKORASI NASKAH

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 153
Author(s):  
Mu'jizah Mu'jizah
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The Government ◽  
The 19Th Century

Betawi pada abad ke-19 menjadi tempat penyalinan naskah atau skriptorium. Naskah disalin di lembaga pemerintah dan di beberapa kampung oleh masyarakat. Banyaknya naskah tersebut membuktikan bahwa intelektualitas masyarakat Betawi sudah tinggi. Naskah-naskah yang disalin masyarakat memiliki keunikan, terutama banyaknya dekorasi naskah berupa iluminasi, ilustrasi, dan kaligrafi. Dekorasi atau hiasan tersebut disesuaikan dengan jenis cerita. Dalam makalah ini dibahas skriptorium naskah Betawi dengan kekayaan naskahnya, pengarang dan penyalin, serta keberagaman dekorasi dalam bentuk iluminasi dan ilustrasi yang menjadi keunikan naskah Betawi. Metode kodikologi digunakan untuk membahas skriptorium dan dekorasi naskah Betawi. Dari pembahasan ini ditemukan bahwa pada abad ke-19 di Betawi banyak diproduksi naskah. Naskah yang disalin bukan hanya oleh Pemerintah Hindia-Belanda yang digunakan sebagai bahan pelajaran bagi para pejabat yang akan ditugasi ke Hindia-Belanda, melainkan oleh masyarakat yang naskahnya disewakan. Dekorasi berupa iluminasi dan ilustrasi  berfungsi sebagai hiasan untuk menarik minat pembaca. Kesimpulannya bahwa Betawi sebagai skriptorium naskah pada masa lalu memperlihatkan dinamika intelektualitas masyarakatnya yang banyak memproduksi naskah untuk bahan bacaan masyarakat. In the 19th century, Betawi became a scriptorium, place of writing manuscripts. The manuscripts copied in government agencies and in some vilages by community. The manuscripts consists of many genres. The large numbers of the manuscript prove that the community in Betawi was already high intellect. The manuscript from Betawi which was copied by scribes and has uniqueness. There are the large numbers of manuscripts was decorated by illumination, illustration, and calligraphy. An ornament is depends on a kind of story. In this paper we want to discussed, Betawi as a place of copied or scriptorium with riches of manuscripts, author and scribes, and the diversity of decorations like ilumination, illustration, and challigraphy as a uniquenessof of Betawi manuscript. Codicologi methods used to discuss of scriptorium, illumination, and illustration of the manuscripts. From discussion we found that Betawi has many scribes. In the government of Holland-Indies manuscript copied by scribes, they paid for writing manuscripts which was used as a lesson to officials will be assigned to Holland-Indies. Manucripts belong to the community was leased for many reader. The manuscripts decorated by illumination and illustration. It serves to attract the readers. The conclusion is scriptorium of Batawi manuscript in the past showed the intellectuality of Betawi people many producing manuscripts for materials reading.

Point of Involvement, Purchase and Consumption

2011 ◽  
pp. 300-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neal M. Burns
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Advertising Effectiveness ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Global Marketplace ◽  
The Past ◽  
Technological Base ◽  
Measures Of Effectiveness

Advertising effectiveness and its measurement has characteristically been a subject of concern and debate and with the availability and access of the Internet and digital technology the issue is still elusive and complex. This chapter provides a review of the measures that were frequently used to determine the audience that was impacted with traditional media resources as well as those media and message processes generally called new or “alternative” - in that they are different than the traditional electronic, print and out-of home that have been used by advertisers and their agencies for more than 100 years. The chapter reviews and discusses which measures are simply cost indices and which are measures of effectiveness. The emphasis reflects the interests of both those working in the field as practitioners as well as those involved in its research and instruction. In a profession in which decisions in the past were built upon cost per thousand (CPT or CPM), cost per point (CPP) and the challenges of ROI and share fight, the metrics for new media must be precisely defined, valid and reliable. Assessing advertising effectiveness is–as has been said–challenging. The need to inform, persuade and sell in a global marketplace with a technological base that incorporates all we have used in the past plus the networks and mobile delivery now available have already served to make this aspect of communication a compelling set of opportunities. Digital media and delivery are revolutionary and their impact will be profound. Ideally, the problems to be solved will bring those doing the research and those in practice closer than they have been in the past. The metrics to be developed and the narratives that will follow will reflect the ways in which we relate to products and services and to each other in the 21st Century.

scholarly journals EXPLORING THE IDEAS OF HYPERLOCAL NEWS AS A FUTURE JOURNALISM

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. 24-34
Author(s):  
Afiqah Mior Kamarulbaid ◽  
Wan Anita Wan Abas ◽  
Siti Zobidah Omar ◽  
Rosmiza Bidin
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Financial Constraints ◽  
General Trend ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
The Past ◽  
Advertising Revenue ◽  
Review Articles ◽  
Digital Journalism ◽  
Growing Body

This study is to explore the ideas of hyperlocal news as future journalism. As the economy weakens, the general trend of declining circulation and advertising revenue for the past few years, Malaysia's media industry has begun downsizing or wrapping up certain segments of their operations. Utusan Melayu offers VSS to more than half its workers as part of its restructuring exercise to reduce overall costs due to the company's financial constraints, the same goes for Media Prima and Astro. The new media on news platforms has changes the practices of news making. Growing body research on digital journalism and news on digital media but little has been undertaken into the potential of hyperlocal news as future journalism. In this paper, researcher review articles related to the study of hyperlocal news, digital journalism and new media. By conducting this study, a deeper understanding of what is hyperlocal media, what the roles and how this hyperlocal media as a future of local journalism.

scholarly journals Ageing, migration and new media: The significance of transnational care

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raelene Wilding ◽  
Loretta Baldassar
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Older People ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Aged Care ◽  
Older Age ◽  
The Past ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The One ◽  
Striking Contrast

The experiences of ageing for today’s older people present a striking contrast to those of the past. They are entering older age in a world that is characterised by complex mobilities and flows, in which large numbers of people are ageing in countries other than the one in which they were born and often at a distance from their closest family members. At the same time, new media are providing unprecedented opportunities to bring distant places and people together in new ways. These dramatic shifts are transforming the context within which older people provide and receive care. In this article, we argue that it has become both necessary and urgent for researchers and practitioners of ageing to reconsider their emphasis on the proximate care networks of older people, by incorporating closer attention to the increasingly global, transnational and virtual contexts within which ageing and aged care now routinely takes place.

scholarly journals Det medialiserede museum: digitale teknologiers transformation af museernes formidling

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (54) ◽  
pp. 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maja Rudloff
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
User Experience ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Museum Collection ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Social Act ◽  
General Perspective

<p>Over the past two decades, digital technologies have gained a greater and more important role in communication and dissemination of knowledge by museums. This article argues that the digitization of museum communication can be viewed as a result of a mediatization process that is connected to a cultural-political and museological focus on digital dissemination, in which user experience, interactivity, and participation are central concepts. The article argues that the different forms of communication, representation, and reception offered by digital media, together with the interactive and social possibilities for action they facilitate for their users, contribute to a transformation of the museum as an institution. It is concluded that the relationship between museum, collection, and users has undergone a number of changes caused by the intervention of the media and that the traditional social act of museum visiting has been transformed and somewhat adapted to new media-created forms of communication and action. From a more general perspective, the article may be regarded as a contribution to a continuous discussion of the role museums must play in a mediatized society.</p>

Digital and Technical Developments in the Amblyopia Therapy

2020 ◽  
Vol 237 (10) ◽  
pp. 1172-1176
Author(s):  
Charlotte Schramm ◽  
Yaroslava Wenner
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Technical Progress ◽  
Therapy Monitoring ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Technical Developments ◽  
The Future

AbstractThe digital media becomes more and more common in our everyday lives. So it is not surprising that technical progress is also leaving its mark on amblyopia therapy. New media and technologies can be used both in the actual amblyopia therapy or therapy monitoring. In particular in this review shutter glasses, therapy monitoring and analysis using microsensors and newer video programs for amblyopia therapy are presented and critically discussed. Currently, these cannot yet replace classic amblyopia therapy. They represent interesting options that will occupy us even more in the future.

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