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1 online resource |
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Metalabprojects |
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MetaLABprojects.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- A Visual Introduction -- Preface: Opening Vectors -- How to Read This Book -- Chapter 1. Designing for Difference -- Into the Fray -- Modularity at Midcentury: Thinking Race + UNIX -- Situating UNIX -- Modularity in the Social Field + the Database -- Moving beyond Our Boxes+ Mapping Materialisms -- Window 1. Introducing Vectors -- Chapter 2. Assembling Scholarship: From Vectors to Scalar -- On Process -- Window 2. The Look + Feel of Vectors -- Window 3. Making "Stolen Time" -- Reimagining Content and Form -- Window 4. Various Vectors |
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Scaling Vectors -- Window 5. The Scalar Feature Set and Showcase -- Outro: Scholarship in the Wild -- Appendix: Guidelines for Evaluating Digital Scholarship -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Credits |
| Summary |
For over a dozen years, the Vectors Lab has experimented with digital scholarship through its online publication, Vectors, and through Scalar, a multimedia authoring platform. The history of this software lab intersects a much longer tale about computation in the humanities, as well as tensions about the role of theory in related projects. Tara McPherson considers debates around the role of cultural theory within the digital humanities and addresses Gary Hall's claim that the goals of critical theory and of quantitative or computational analysis may be irreconcilable (or at the very least require "far more time and care"). She then asks what it might mean to design--from conception--digital tools and applications that emerge from contextual concerns of cultural theory and, in particular, from a feminist concern for difference. This path leads back to the Vectors Lab and its ongoing efforts at the intersection of theory and praxis |
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In English |
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Digital humanities.
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Computer software -- Development.
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Scholarly electronic publishing.
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Software engineering -- Social aspects
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Computers and women.
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digital humanities.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
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Computer software -- Development
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Computers and women
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Digital humanities
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Scholarly electronic publishing
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780674275287 |
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0674275284 |
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