The promises and perils of a digital geohumanities
The promises and perils of a digital geohumanities
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数字地理学的前景和危险
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2015
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M. Crang
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这种干预询问数字媒体的发展在多大程度上提供了需要新方法的新对象，以及在多大程度上创造了可能适用于旧文化领域的新方法，从而创造了数字地理人文。它认为，数字媒体有时不仅在我们研究什么方面，而且在我们如何研究方面重新激活了旧的辩论和问题，它们的意义可能不如新技术，而不是改变我们在文化地理学贸易中的一般工具。本文着眼于新的数字文化，如游戏和新的融合媒体，以及新的方法，无论是分析数字媒介社交生活的数据耗尽，还是在文学分析中使用新软件。在大量文本的定量分析和解构主义视野之间存在着深刻的张力，前者产生确定的意义，后者产生不确定的和增殖的意义。大数据坐大解读。这篇文章提出，需要一种唯物主义的符号学来处理新的数字技术可能形成的情感技术的排列组合，这些技术可以像有效的分析工具一样传达意义。
This intervention asks to what extent developments of digital media offer new objects that demand new methods and to what extent they create new methods that might be applied to older cultural fields creating a digital geohumanities. It argues that digital media sometimes reanimate older debates and issues not only in what we study but how we do so, and their significance may be less in new techniques than altering the general tools of our trade in cultural geography. This article looks at both new digital cultures, such as gaming and new converging media, and new methods, be they analysing the data exhaust of digitally mediated social lives or using new software in literary analysis. Profound tensions exist between quantitative imaginaries of a massive stock of texts yielding determinate meanings and deconstructive visions of texts yielding indeterminate and proliferating meanings. Big data sit uneasily with big interpretation. This article suggests a materialist semiosis is needed to attend to the permutations where new digital techniques may form affective technologies conveying meanings as much as effective analytical tools.