Healthy Cities – Digital Humanities and the City
Healthy Cities – Digital Humanities and the City
Categories: Panel Discussions | Intended for Anyone
Location Details
Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 290 Lisgar Street, Ottawa
Contact Information
Emma Fraser, 6135201149, emma.fraser@carleton.ca
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$0
About this Event
Host Organization: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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The digital humanities is an approach to the big questions of our age: what does it mean to be human when everything is so digitally-mediated? At the same time, it examines our digital culture and says, what do we see when we look at digital media from a humanities perspective? Then, let’s throw in the fact that human culture, overwhelmingly for the first time in human history, is urban culture. What do we see? What answers do we come up with? For that matter, what even are the questions? Can the digital humanities make our cities better?