E-Crit: Digital Media, Critical Theory, and the Humanities (Heritage) - Tapa blanda

Acerca del autor

Marcel O'Gorman is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Waterloo.

De la contraportada

‘From its adventuresome spirit, and it’s deliberately provisional methodology, to its desire to reform academic discourses and practices, there is much to like about Marcel O’Gorman’s E-Crit. The author argues that critical methodologies, disciplinary structures, and entire universities need to be revised in order to accommodate a more open, less hierarchical, more visually intensive and culturally relevant education. This book makes an important contribution by advancing our thinking about how digital media can and should be incorporated in to academia.’

‘E-Crit is a bold attempt to redefine scholarly communication in an era characterized by the arrival of digital media. The problem that the author addresses is this: New technologies of communication and representation (the Internet, computer graphics) seem to be implicated in fundamental shifts in popular media forms and in the delivery of scientific and even scholarly texts. Many critics in the humanities are exploring these issues in their work. However, the form of the work itself remains largely unchanged and unexplored. This is the paradox that O’Gorman seeks to confront, and his approach is both radical and practical. He attempts both explain and exemplify his E-Crit approach - to understand how digital writing can be different from linear writing for print, and to train his students in a new form of digital representation.’

De la solapa interior

From its adventuresome spirit, and it s deliberately provisional methodology, to its desire to reform academic discourses and practices, there is much to like about Marcel O Gorman s E-Crit. The author argues that critical methodologies, disciplinary structures, and entire universities need to be revised in order to accommodate a more open, less hierarchical, more visually intensive and culturally relevant education. This book makes an important contribution by advancing our thinking about how digital media can and should be incorporated in to academia.

E-Crit is a bold attempt to redefine scholarly communication in an era characterized by the arrival of digital media. The problem that the author addresses is this: New technologies of communication and representation (the Internet, computer graphics) seem to be implicated in fundamental shifts in popular media forms and in the delivery of scientific and even scholarly texts. Many critics in the humanities are exploring these issues in their work. However, the form of the work itself remains largely unchanged and unexplored. This is the paradox that O Gorman seeks to confront, and his approach is both radical and practical. He attempts both explain and exemplify his E-Crit approach - to understand how digital writing can be different from linear writing for print, and to train his students in a new form of digital representation.