Materials, technologies and the printing industry

Bromage, Sarah; Williams, Helen

doi:10.1017/9780511862489.002

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“…All print texts have been digital for at least part of their lives since the 1970s, when computerised typesetting superseded earlier mechanical methods [11]. From the 1980s, digital word processing enabled a further shift from authoring through physical means (typewriting, paper) to digital authoring [30].…”

Section: Digital Manuscriptsmentioning

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Death and Transmediations: Manuscripts in the Age of Hypertext

Antonini

Benatti

Watson

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 32st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media

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Has Hypertext killed off both the form and value of manuscript? Digital authoring first and web authoring later have changed drastically the availability and type of traces that reflect both creative and editorial processes. In this view, the consolidated approaches on manuscript studies involving the analysis of material artefacts are challenged. While new methodologies such as digital "forensics" and "virtual desks" are emerging, the nature and relations of native-digital manuscripts are yet to be fully investigated. This contribution accounts digital artefacts within the field of manuscript studies, identifying parallels between material manuscripts and hypertext features in their value as documents. The mapping between digital and material artefacts outlines a theory of manuscript "transmediations" identifying where and how manuscripts cues are reflected in digital technologies. This theory is developed through case studies and analyses of digital transitions. In a discussion, we highlight key challenges and future directions for scholarly editions of digital manuscripts. Lastly, we elaborate the requirements of a hypertext "genre" for digital manuscripts that supports reconciling the open-ended collaborative process of curation with the need for a coherent narrative addressed to the broader public. CCS CONCEPTS• Applied computing → Arts and humanities; • Human-centered computing → Hypertext / hypermedia.

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Section: Digital Manuscriptsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Death and Transmediations: Manuscripts in the Age of Hypertext

Antonini

Benatti

Watson

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 32st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media

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Virago Reprints and Modern Classics

Withers

2021

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Reprinting, republishing and re-covering old books in new clothes is an established publishing practice. How are books that have fallen out of taste and favour resituated by publishers, and recognised by readers, as relevant and timely? This Element outlines three historical textures within British culture of the late 1970s and early 1980s – History, Remembrance and Heritage – that enabled Virago's reprint publishing to become a commercial and cultural success. With detailed archival case studies of the Virago Reprint Library, Testament of Youth and the Virago Modern Classics, it elaborates how reprints were profitable for the publisher and moved Virago's books - and the Virago brand name - from the periphery of culture to the centre. Throughout Virago's reprint publishing - and especially with the Modern Classics - the epistemic revelation that women writers were forgotten and could, therefore, be rediscovered, was repeated, again and again, and made culturally productive through the marketplace.

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The Revival of Quantification: Reflections on Old New Histories

Ruggles¹

2021

Soc. sci. hist.

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Quantitative historical analysis in the United States surged in three distinct waves. The first quantitative wave occurred as part of the “New History” that blossomed in the early twentieth century and disappeared in the 1940s and 1950s with the rise of consensus history. The second wave thrived from the 1960s to the 1980s during the ascendance of the New Economic History, the New Political History, and the New Social History, and died out during the “cultural turn” of the late twentieth century. The third wave of historical quantification—which I call the revival of quantification—emerged in the second decade of the twenty-first century and is still underway. I describe characteristics of each wave and discuss the historiographical context of the ebb and flow of quantification in history.

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Materials, technologies and the printing industry

Cited by 3 publications

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Death and Transmediations: Manuscripts in the Age of Hypertext

Death and Transmediations: Manuscripts in the Age of Hypertext

Virago Reprints and Modern Classics

The Revival of Quantification: Reflections on Old New Histories

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