Friending the Past
The Sense of History and Social Computing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4271032 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alan Liu (0000-0002-8884-6662) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-30 |
| Publication date | 2011-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Literary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/nlh.2011.0004 |
| OpenAlex | W2023530290 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 28 |
Reflecting on the relation between the media ages of orality, writing, and digital networking, Liu asks the question: what happens today to the "sense of history" that was the glory of the high age of print? In particular, what does the age of social computing-social networking, blogs, Twitter, etc.-have in common with prior ages in which the experience of sociality was deeply vested in a shared sense of history? Liu focuses on a comparison of nineteenth-century historicism and contemporary Web 2.0, and concludes by touching on the RoSE Research-oriented Social Environment that the Transliteracies Project he directs has been building to model past bibliographical resources as a social network
Aesthetics · Art · Glory · Historicism · Literacy · Literature · Media studies · New Historicism · Orality · Relation (database · Social history (medicine · Social media · Social network (sociolinguistics · Sociality · Sociology · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · History · Media, Communication, and Education
Critical theory since Plato.
Structural Semantics
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Deep Play
How We Became Posthuman
The Nature of the Book
The Content of the Form
Orality and Literacy
Historians and the Law in Postrevolutionary France
Reassembling the Social
The Order of Things
The Language of New Media
Holding on to Reality
Inherent" Ideology, "Universal" History, "Empirical" Evidence, and "Context-Free" Writing
The Interpretation of Cultures
A thousand plateaus
The Postmodern Condition
Gramophone, Film, Typewriter
The Text and the Voice
The Mangle of Practice
The Memo and Modernity
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |