Contemporary Culture : : New Directions in Art and Humanities Research / / ed. by Judith Thissen, Kitty Zijlmans, Robert Zwijnenberg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backfile 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bijsterveld, Karin,; Boomkens, René,; Frissen, Valerie,; Glas, René,; Haifeng, Ni,; Hooven, Marcel ten,; Jacobs, Annelies,; Jansen, Bas,; Lammes, Sybille,; Oosterbaan, Martijn,; Raessens, Joost,; Somsen, Geert,; Thissen, Judith,; Vega, Judith,; Werner, Jeroen,; Zijlmans, Kitty,; Zwijnenberg, Robert,; de Lange, Michiel,; de Mul, Jos,; de Waal, Martijn,; van Dijck, José,; van Stipriaan, Alex,; van de Vall, Renée,
• HerausgeberIn: Thissen, Judith,; Zijlmans, Kitty,; Zwijnenberg, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Transformations in Art and Culture
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 25 halftones

Are the humanities still relevant in the twenty-first century? In the context of pervasive economic liberalism and shrinking budgets, the importance of humanities research for society is increasingly put into question. This volume claims that the humanities do indeed matter by offering empirically grounded critical reflections on contemporary cultural practices, thereby opening up new ways of understanding social life and new directions in humanities scholarship. The contributors argue that the humanities can regain their relevance for society, pose new questions and provide fresh answers, while maintaining their core values: critical reflection, historical consciousness and analytical distance.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Media Cities -- Chapter One. Mediacity: On the Discontinuous Continuity of the Urban Public Sphere -- Chapter Two. Orkontros: Brazilian Migrants, Social Network Sites and the European City -- Chapter Three. Imagining the City: The Difference that Art Makes -- Chapter Four. Body Movies: The City as Interface -- Part II. The Ludic Turn -- Chapter Five. Homo Ludens 2.0: Play, Media and Identity -- Chapter Six. Digital Cartographies as Playful Practices -- Chapter Seven. From Gengsi to Gaul: Mobile Media and Playful Identities in Jakarta -- Chapter Eight. Transformations in Perception and Participation: Digital Games -- Chapter Nine. Machinima: Moving on the Edge of Rules and Fiction -- Part III. Thinking Analogue -- Chapter Ten. Sound Technologies and Cultural Practices: How Analogies Make us Listen to Transformations in Art and Culture -- Chapter Eleven. The Case of ccMixter: Credit-Giving within a Communal Online Remixing Practice -- Part IV. Hybrid Practices -- Chapter Twelve. On the Need for Cooperation between Art and Science -- Chapter Thirteen. Laboratory on the Move in Retrospect -- Chapter Fourteen. Embedded in the Dutch Art World -- Chapter Fifteen. Roots and the Production of Heritage -- Chapter Sixteen. How to Succeed in Art and Science: The Observatory Observed -- Part V. Looking Back, Looking Forward -- Introduction -- Interview with José van Dijck and Robert Zwijnenberg -- About the Authors