scholarly journals Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste y Juan Carlos Rodríguez, editores. Digital Humanities in Latin America: Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America.

2021 ◽  
Vol 87 (276) ◽  
pp. 949-952
Author(s):  
María Cecilia Saenz-Roby

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Author(s):  
Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste ◽  
Juan Carlos Rodríguez

This introductory chapter provides a general context for this collection, starting with the anecdotal inception of the project. It provides a list of some of the important titles in the field of digital humanities that figure prominently as academic predecessors and ponders on the consequences and implications of the digital turn in the humanities for the study of Latinx and Latin American culture. In response to the cultural hegemony of Anglocentric circles in the digital humanities, it provides ample evidence of the development and existence of the field in Latin America. Finally, it provides a brief overview of the four sections into which the book is divided: digital nations, transnational networks, digital aesthetics and practices, and interviews with Latin American DH scholars.


2009 ◽  
Vol 133 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Wang

This article offers some speculations on the challenge that new media technology poses to the concept and practice of advertising, particularly the impact of open-content technology. It canvasses a number of globalising trends, notably Web 2.0 technology and culture, user-generated content, and the industry buzz about emerging business models enabled by 2.0. As digital marketing has taken shape and become more technologically driven than ever, advertising is no longer the only, nor even the primary, source of revenue for new media. Apart from mapping the new terrain, the paper examines some 2.0 revenue models for the purpose of inviting researchers to think beyond the parameters set by plain old advertising. On the methodological front, the paper argues that keeping ourselves abreast of new revenue strategies brings to the fore a number of key areas of investigation hitherto understudied by academic advertising researchers, in particular media technology and digital copyright protocols.


Humanus ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 152
Author(s):  
Iswandi Iswandi

Music is a branch of art close to and present in human’s life every day. Through the social study perspective, this kind of concentration is usually called musical semiology or how music functions as an art creation in the society. In the daily life, men always listen to music intentionally or unintentionally. Therefore, music is inseparable from human life. The logical consequence is an effort to improve the role of music in the society, along with the fast development of media technology and culture. Art as a human creation has various functions which are not only for artistic interests. From the psychological context, music functions in and influence the increase of intelligence, therapeutic benefit that are not detached with its cultural, technical, and methodical background. Here, as part of the hybrid between music and psychology, musical therapy adopts relevant psychoterapic techniques. The term musical therapy has also been used in the curriculum of educational institution and foundation for children with specific needs of education with qualification of education or psychology for the specific needs.


Digital Humanities in Latin America performs a number of tasks: a re-definition of the nations’ symbolic territories, which implies their exploration as digital contexts, experiments, media products, or even as uneven battlefields; a re-examination of the role of transnational networks in the configuration of new identities and/or communities, as exemplified by the cases of the Andean, Latin, and Afro-Latin networks discussed in this book; and a highlighting of the importance of cases that complexify the interaction between national territories and transnational flows through the remixing of aesthetic and political codes. Cognizant of the risks implicit in hegemonic agency, its object is to serve as a vehicle of communication between the Latin American digital humanities and the English-speaking circles of this field in the US and the UK, while at the same time documenting the existence and viability of pertinent academic initiatives south of the border.


Author(s):  
Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste ◽  
Juan Carlos Rodríguez

Isabel Galina is a researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas, a research institute for bibliographic studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM. The university is also home to the Biblioteca Nacional, Mexico’s national library. Isabel Galina discusses the emergence of digital humanities and her views on how DH works within this particular structure and related issues to do with understanding national bibliographical collections in the digital age, in particular regarding e-legal deposit and digital preservation. She discusses the difficulties in identifying, selecting, and incorporating born-digital materials. In the interview, Isabel Galina also describes how she got involved in DH, the creation of the Red de Humanidades Digitales (RedHD), and other DH developments in Mexico and Latin America. Finally, the conversation examines university and government support for DH as well as a look at DH works in Mexico in collaboration with other countries, and in particular hosting the international Digital Humanities conference in Mexico City in 2018.


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