Using Documents: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Document Theory
Gerald Hartung, "Using Documents: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Document Theory"
English | ISBN: 3110780771 | 2022 | 270 pages | EPUB, PDF | 105 MB + 12 MB
English | ISBN: 3110780771 | 2022 | 270 pages | EPUB, PDF | 105 MB + 12 MB
Using Documents presents an interdisciplinary discussion of human communication by means of documents, e.g., letters. Cultural scientists, together with researchers from media science and media engineering, analyze questions of document modeling, including a document’s contexts of use, on the basis of cultural theory. The research also concerns the debate on the material turn in the fields of cultural studies and media studies.
Looking back on existing work, texts on written communication by the philosopher and sociologist Georg Simmel and by an interdisciplinary French group of authors under the pseudonym Roger T. Pédauque are taken as a starting point and presented afresh.
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