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The diffusion and impact of Baron d’Holbach’s texts in Great Britain, 1765–1800
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Nick Treuherz
Published: 30 October 2016
... d’Holbach materialistic atheism cultural transfer intellectual networks digital humanities The idea of radical thinkers secretly plotting the overthrow of civilisation as we know it is not confined to our present age. In 1797, John Robison’s Proofs of a Conspiracy against All the Religions ...
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Published: 24 December 2016
... Afghanistan ‘reincarnated images’ Google Ivory Coast Kenya co present experience live streaming Polchin James Sontag Susan Brazil ethical issues Klonk Charlotte Human rights Witnessing Participation Digital media Livestreaming Ethics Remix ...
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The Arc and the Machine: Narrative and New Media
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Caroline Bassett
Published online: 19 July 2012
Published in print: 01 December 2007
... in the digital age, the book insists on the centrality of narrative to informational culture and provokes a critical re-appraisal of how innovations in information technology as a material cultural form can be understood and assessed. It offers a careful exploration of narrative theory, a critique of techno...
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Digital representations of habitus: a multimodal reading of archived London-French blogs
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Saskia Huc-Hepher
Published: 01 June 2021
... the materiality of the digital and the relational nature of London-French online/on-land experience, together with the predominance of women, who repurpose their blogs in a technomaterialist, xenofeminist turn. Despite challenges posed by the web-archival methodology, the chapter confirms the persistence...
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Published: 28 February 2018
... after the signing of the Good Friday peace agreement providing a challenge to the narratives of digital utopianism and its claims for a public sphere dynamically and completely restructured by the Internet. Belfast British Broadcasting Corporation Democratic Unionist Party DUP McGuinness Martin...
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Virtual museums and new directions?
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Vilsoni Hereniko
Published: 01 January 2019
... that mirror the robust developments in digital technology. The physical museum needs to be transformed so that their material collections can stimulate cultural production by living artists and cultural practitioners. This juxtaposition of the past and the present, the dead and the living, ensures...
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The digital age, media sport and mega-events: piracy and symbiosis in the cultural industries
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Maurice Roche
Published: 15 June 2017
...What are the implications of the digital age and new media for media-sport and the mediation of sport mega-events like the Olympics? In this chapter we focus on the internet ‘piracy’ problem and look into recent governmental policies and practices which aim to address and curb internet piracy...
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The transformation of the humanities in Ireland
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Michael O'Sullivan
Published: 31 March 2014
... Aronowitz Stanley Allen Graham employment of Irish humanities graduates IRCHSS Irish Research Council for the Humanities &Social Sciences Appiah Kwane Anthony digital humanities Meaney Gerardine Nussbaum Martha Asian humanities Yao Xinzhong Hyde Douglas President of Ireland 1938–45 Joyce...
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Translocal Indigenous communities: global Indigeneity and networks of political activism
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Tristan Kennedy
Published: 21 November 2023
... in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. I examine the emergence of digital communities that transgress geographical space and facilitate Indigenous peoples’ negotiation of local and nation-state boundaries. political activism digital technology authority racism Translocal digital Indigenous boundaries...
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conceptions
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Kieron O'Hara
Published: 18 July 2023
... ‘Dark Lady’ the face recognition technology identity ID mobile phone personal space Shakespeare William tattoos records self consciousness Concepts conceptions privacy telepathy multiple personality animal privacy intuition digital communications The notion of a concept is a live one...
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Published: 17 January 2023
...This chapter interrogates the ways in which digital technology is being creatively deployed to augment Sillitoe’s fiction and to reposition his oeuvre as a body of interactive working-class writing in which the reader actualises the text in real time, on the streets of Nottingham. The chapter...
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Published online: 21 January 2016
Published in print: 01 May 2015
... factor influencing the life choices and identity of the migrants and their descendants. The book documents for the first time a representative sample of Irish immigrant families and uses the techniques of family and digital history to explore their long-term fate. To do this it examines the Irish...
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Published online: 21 January 2021
Published in print: 24 March 2020
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Published: 02 December 2020
.... These include the use of open-source technology to enable a more evenly distributed level of participation; forms of collaboration, cooperation and knowledge sharing to extend individual capacity by networking it with others; and training programmes to redistribute digital fabrication skills and making...
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Researching and challenging everyday racism with the ‘illegitimated children of Italy’
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Annalisa Frisina
Published: 04 June 2024
...The chapter examines the everyday struggles and antiracist practices of young people, showing how visual methods can be used to open a transformative safe space for racialised non-white young people, who can express their ‘right to look’. Through digital self-representations of everyday experiences...
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Published: 26 September 2023
... Canada financialisation McFarland Billy United Kingdom United States Capitalism digital technology financialisation Fyre Festival libidinal economy political economy psychoanalysis neoliberalism social media subjectivity In the 2019 Netflix documentary FYRE: The Greatest Party ...
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Published: 26 September 2023
...As potent new cultures of desire take shape around the intersection of digital technology and finance, this very site is beginning to take on the qualities of a fantasy, structuring ever more lives around recursive forms of emotional capture and release, while at the same time fuelling a lucrative...
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Clickbait capitalism: Economies of desire in the twenty-first century
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Amin Samman (ed.) and Earl Gammon (ed.)
Published online: 23 May 2024
Published in print: 26 September 2023
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Censorship gazes on female portraiture
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Ronnie Close
Published: 06 February 2024
... diverse image-based works are discussed to consider the regulation of female bodies in the public sphere which have triggered responses to tell us much about censorship and misogyny. The first involves the digital self-portrait of feminist Aliaa al-Mahdy who posted a nude self-portrait on her personal...
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Conclusion: Decolonial aesthetic futures
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Ronnie Close
Published: 06 February 2024
... Mona Al Ithnayn magazine al Musawwar Illustrated weekly magazine Muslim Brotherhood Egyptian photography visuals and Salem Sara postcolonialism decoloniality oppression censorship religion activism digital photography nationalism modernity Decolonizing images: A new history ...