With apologies for cross-postings.
Centre for e-Research Seminar, King's College London
Reading Screens
Orla Murphy , University College Cork
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/research/seminars/2012-13/reading.aspx
13 November 21012, 6.15pm, Anatomy Museum Space, Strand Campus
(directions: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/atm/location.aspx)
The cultural act of reading is in flux. The dynamic, contextual
framework that is the text viewed on screen challenges our understanding
of the page. Some technologies seek to emulate the page, to turn off the
back light and enable reading outdoors in sunlight. Other digital
technologies aim to both sustain and augment the reader’s experience of
the text, moving beyond the paper page and into a new conceptualisation
of reading, with layers of texts, with choices of views, with integrated
multi and social media. This presentation explores how we once read and
how we now read often multivalent texts on multiple screens. I query
what has changed in these new modes of knowledge representation, and
what remains constant, and posit challenges for future scholarly discourse.
About the Speaker
Orla Murphy – Coordinator of the MA DAH program at UCC, member of the
national inter-institutional PhD DAH program in Ireland. Lecturer in the
School of English, University College Cork, where she teaches, Old
English language, palaeography, codicology and new histories of the
book; a third year course on textualities, and MA, PhD courses on
digital scholarly editing and textual practice.
The seminar will be followed by wine and nibbles.
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Dr. Stuart Dunn
Lecturer
Centre for e-Research
Department of Digital Humanities
King's College London
26-29 Drury Lane
London, WC2B 5RL
Tel. +44 20 7848 2709
Fax. +44 20 7848 2980
www.stuartdunn.wordpress.com
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