Beyond Remediation: The Role of Textual Studies in Implementing New Knowledge Environments

Abstract

<jats:p>This article considers the role of textual studies in a digital world and reviews the work of a particular group of digital textual scholars. Specifically, the article examines the work of the Textual Studies team at the Implementing New Knowledge Environments project (INKE.ca), a group of digital textual scholars working on user experience, interface design, and information management with the goal of better understanding how reading is changing in the context of digital media. INKE’s work rethinks what the book can become and aims to generate prototypes to be shared on an open-source basis with the public.</jats:p>

O videogame como materialidade de texto em uma perspectiva histórico-cultural

“…Alan Galey et al (2011) discutem principalmente o paradoxo dos estudos dos objetos culturais como novas tecnologias digitais. Se, por um lado, não há como pensar em artefatos físicos que possam ser transformados em digitalizações e continuar com os mesmos atributos, ou seja, oferecendo as mesmas apropriações, por outro, a cultura é passada de geração em geração e o seu avanço tecnológico vai, de uma maneira ou de outra, incorporar-se de forma diferente.…”

Considering music production and culture management as an emerging digital ecosystem

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Imagining the Architectures of the Book: Textual Scholarship and the Digital Book Arts

“…9. See the discussion of George Herbert's Easter Wings in Galey et al, 2012. consistent paper by using loom-woven wire mesh provided John Baskerville with the smooth, even printing surface required to realize the delicate strokes of his eponymous typeface (Balston 1998, 180-5). Scholars such as Dagenais and Michael Camille have pointed out the significant difference in the (literally) visceral experience of text inscribed on the skin of what was once "a living, breathing mammal like us" (Dagenais 2004, 40), and the two-dimensional, tactically rarified digital text, in which "one cannot leave one's bodily impression upon its surface" (Camille 1998, 47).…”

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