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Media Boundaries and Conceptual Modelling

Between Texts and Maps

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  • © 2015

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Authors:
  1. Øyvind Eide

    1. University of Passau, Germany

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  • Explores how different media represent reality, fiction, myth, and other parts of the human lived world
  • Acknowledges the spatial turn by investigating the boundary between texts and maps, the traditional media for geospatial information
  • Makes a compelling and important contribution to the further development of digital humanities as a discipline

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Part I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Øyvind Eide
      Pages 3-9

    3. Texts, Maps, and the Landscape

      • Øyvind Eide
      Pages 10-40

    4. Critical Stepwise Formalisation

      • Øyvind Eide
      Pages 41-74

  3. Part II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    2. Case Studies

      • Øyvind Eide
      Pages 77-113

    3. Towards a Typology of Media Differences

      • Øyvind Eide
      Pages 114-135

  4. Part III

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137
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    2. Texts and Maps as Media Expressions

      • Øyvind Eide
      Pages 139-174

    3. GIS and Digital Mapping

      • Øyvind Eide
      Pages 175-194

    4. Critical Stepwise Formalisation Reloaded

      • Øyvind Eide
      Pages 195-210

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 211-230
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About this book

Media Boundaries and Conceptual Modelling forms part of the humanities tradition by facing one of the fundamental problems since antiquity: how different media represent the world we live in. It intersects also with the digital by addressing the problem with the help of a digital humanities method: computer assisted conceptual modelling. And it acknowledges the spatial turn by investigating the boundary between what has traditionally been the two main media for representation of geospatial information: texts and maps. 


It contributes to the further development of digital humanities and bridges the two areas of digital humanities and intermedia studies. Further, it strengthens the theoretical foundation for research and teaching in spatial digital humanities. The book meets the lack of critical discussion of the practice of digital mapping, offering a theoretically based understanding of such practices from a humanities perspective. More generally,it contributes to the theoretical discussion of modelling in digital humanities.


Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Passau, Germany

    Øyvind Eide

About the author

Øyvind Eide is Lecturer and Research Associate at the Chair of Digital Humanities, University of Passau, Germany. He has a PhD in Digital Humanities from King's College London and has worked with cultural heritage information and digital humanities at the University of Oslo since the 1990s.

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