03890nam 22006255 450 991083823570332120211028163253.00-226-45200-X10.7208/9780226452005(CKB)4100000007101066(MiAaPQ)EBC5393716(DE-B1597)524060(OCoLC)1057893415(DE-B1597)9780226452005(EXLCZ)99410000000710106620191022h20182018 uy 0engurbn#|||a|a||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFriending the past the sense of history in the digital age /Alan LiuChicago :The University of Chicago Press,[2018]©20181 online resource (333 pages) illustrationsIntroduction: the sense of history -- Friending the past -- Imagining the new media encounter -- When was linearity? -- Remembering networks -- Like a sense of history.Print version: Liu, Alan, author. Friending the past : the sense of history in the digital age Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2018]. 9780226451817 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction --1. Friending the Past --2. Imagining the New Media Encounter --3. When Was Linearity? --4. Remembering Networks --5. Like a Sense of History --Appendix: Hypothetical Machine-Learning Workflow for Studying the Sense of History --Notes --Works Cited --IndexCan today's society, increasingly captivated by a constant flow of information, share a sense of history? How did our media-making forebears balance the tension between the present and the absent, the individual and the collective, the static and the dynamic-and how do our current digital networks disrupt these same balances? Can our social media, with its fleeting nature, even be considered social at all? In Friending the Past, Alan Liu proposes fresh answers to these innovative questions of connection. He explores how we can learn from the relationship between past societies whose media forms fostered a communal and self-aware sense of history-such as prehistorical oral societies with robust storytelling cultures, or the great print works of nineteenth-century historicism-and our own instantaneous present. He concludes with a surprising look at how the sense of history exemplified in today's JavaScript timelines compares to the temporality found in Romantic poetry. Interlaced among these inquiries, Liu shows how extensive "network archaeologies" can be constructed as novel ways of thinking about our affiliations with time and with each other. These conceptual architectures of period and age are also always media structures, scaffolded with the outlines of what we mean by history. Thinking about our own time, Liu wonders if the digital, networked future can sustain a similar sense of history.Social media and historyCommunicationTechnological innovationsSocial aspectsDigital mediaSocial aspectsdigital humanities.historicism.history.information society.media archaeology.media.networks.romanticism.temporality.timelines.Social media and history.CommunicationTechnological innovationsSocial aspects.Digital mediaSocial aspects.302.23/1Liu Alan1727773DE-B1597DE-B1597CaOWtUBOOK9910838235703321Friending the past4135599UNINA