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Voices from the South Digital Arts and Humanities Voices from the South Digital Arts and Humanities Edited by Amanda du Preez Voices from the South Digital Arts and Humanities Published by AOSIS (Pty) Ltd, 15 Oxford Street, Durbanville 7550, Cape Town, South Africa Postnet Suite #110, Private Bag X19, Durbanville 7551, South Africa Tel: +27 21 975 2602 Fax: +27 21 975 4635 Email: [email protected] Website: https://www.aosis.co.za Copyright © Amanda du Preez (ed.). Licensee: AOSIS (Pty) Ltd The moral right of the authors has been asserted. Cover: Original work of Justin Bower, Unix Gallery. All rights reserved. No unauthorised duplication allowed. ISBN: 978-1-928396-39-0 (print) ISBN: 978-1-928396-27-7 (epub) ISBN: 978-1-928396-70-3 (pdf) DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/aosis.2018.BK79 How to cite this work: Du Preez, A. (ed.), 2018, Voices from the South: Digital Arts and Humanities, pp. i–270, AOSIS, Cape Town. Printed and bound in South Africa. 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Voices from the South Digital Arts and Humanities EDITOR Amanda du Preez Social Sciences, Humanities, Education & Business Management domain editorial board at AOSIS Chief Editor Andries van Aarde, Post Retirement Professor in the Dean’s Office, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, South Africa Board Members Jan Botha, Professor in the Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa Joan Hambidge, Deputy Dean at the Faculty of Humanities for the University of Cape Town & Professor for the School of Languages and Literatures, South Africa Sakari Häkkinen, Dean of the Diocese of Kuopio, Finland Glenna Jackson, Associate Editor, Professor Chair, Department of Religion and Philosophy, Otterbein University, Westerville, OH, United States of America Gregory C. Jenkins, Dean-elect, St George’s College, Jerusalem, Israel Reina-Marie Loader, Director and Filmmaker, CinémaHumain, Vienna, Austria Babita Marthur-Helm, Senior Lecturer in Organisational Transformation & Development; Managing Diversity Gender Empowerment, University of Stellenbosch Business School, Stellenbosch, South Africa Christopher Mbazira, Professor of Law & Coordinator of the Public Interest Law Clinic, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda Piet Naudé, Professor, Ethics related to politics, economics and business & Director, University of Stellenbosch Business School, Stellenbosch, South Africa Charles Neill, Professor, Department of Business Administration, The British University in Egypt, El Sherouk, Cairo Governorate, Egypt Cornelia Pop, Full professor at the Department of Business, Faculty of Business, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Michael Schratz, Professor, Institut für LehrerInnenbildung und Schulforschung, Dekan der School of Education, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Austria Johann Tempelhoff, Professor, Research Niche for Cultural Dynamics of Water (CuDyWat), School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus of North-West University, Vanderbijlpark, South Africa Anthony Turton, Professor Centre for Environmental Management & Director TouchStone Resources, University of Free State, South Africa Willie L. van der Merwe, Professor & Chair, Philosophy of Religion, Apologetics and Encyclopaedia of theology & Professor Extraordinary, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Christi van der Westhuizen, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Pretoria, South Africa Joke van Saane, Professor, Amsterdam Center for the Study of Lived Religion, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands Paul van Tongeren, Professor, Department Philosophy, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands Robert G. Varady, Deputy Director and Research Professor of Environmental Policy, Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, The University of Arizona, Tucson, United States of America Anné H. Verhoef, Associate Editor, Professor, Faculty of Arts: School of Philosophy, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa Xiao Yun Zheng, Professor & Assistant President of Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences (YASS) and Director International Center for Ecological Culture Studies (ICECS-YASS), Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences, Kunming City, China Peer review declaration The publisher (AOSIS) endorses the South African ‘National Scholarly Book Publishers Forum Best Practice for Peer Review of Scholarly Books.’ The manuscript was subjected to rigorous two-step peer review prior to publication, with the identities of the reviewers not revealed to the author(s). The reviewers were independent of the publisher and/or authors in question. The reviewers commented positively on the scholarly merits of the manuscript and recommended that the manuscript be published. Where the reviewers recommended revision and/or improvements to the manuscript, the authors responded adequately to such recommendations. Research Justification This volume captures the status of digital humanities within the Arts in South Africa. The primary research methodology falls within the broader tradition of phenomenological hermeneutics, with a specific emphasis on visual hermeneutics. Some of the tools utilised as part of the visual hermeneutic methods are geographic information system (GIS) mapping, sensory ethnography and narrative pathways. Digital humanities is positioned here as the necessary engagement of the humanities with the pervasive digital culture of the 21st century. It is posited that the humanities and arts, in particular, have an essential role to play in unlocking meaning from scientific, technological and data-driven research. The critical engagement with digital humanities is foregrounded throughout the volume, as this crucial engagement works through images. Images (as understood within image studies) are not merely another text but always more than a text. As such, this book is the first of its kind in the South African scholarly landscape, and notably also a first on the African continent. Its targeted audience include both scholars within the humanities, particularly in the arts and social sciences. Researchers pursuing the new field of digital humanities may also find the ideas presented in this book significant. Several of the chapters analyse the question of dealing with digital humanities through representations of the self as viewed from the Global South. However, it should be noted that self-representation is not the only area covered in this volume. The latter chapters of the book discuss innovative ways of implementing digital humanities strategies and methodologies for teaching and researching in South Africa. Prof. Amanda du Preez, Visual Culture Studies, Department of Visual Arts, University of Pretoria Contents Abbreviations and Figures Appearing in the Text and Notes xi List of Abbreviations xi List of Figures xii Notes on Contributors xv Acknowledgements xix PART 1: Representations of the Self Chapter 1: Digital Scholarship and Representations of the Self: Exploratory Notes 3 Amanda du Preez Introduction 3 Mapping Digital Humanities Locally 7 Is the Human Condition at Stake? 11 Moving Towards Critical Digital Humanities 13 What Do Selfies Want? 16 Contextualising Selfies 20 Selfies and Democratisation 24 Selfies and Datafication 26 Introduction to Chapters in This Volume 27 Chapter 2: Humanities GIS Selfie and Anti-Selfie Bricolage, Urban Affect and Public Mental Hygiene: The ‘SmartCities’ of James Joyce and Charles Bukowski 31 Charles Travis Introduction 32 GIS and the Selfie 32 SmartCities, Affect and Mental Hygiene: Towards a HumGIS Selfie Bricolage Method 38 Mapping Urban Affect: The Dublin Bloomsday Selfies 40 vii Contents Public Mental Hygiene and the Anti-Selfie: Charles Bukowski’s ‘Dirty Realism’ and Skid Row, Los Angeles 52 Conclusion 58 Chapter 3: The Selfie as Articulation of, and Response to, Indifference(s) 61 Chris Broodryk Introduction 61 Social Media, Selfie Culture and Indifference 65 Possible Pathways Between Selfies, Indifference and Badiou 74 Conclusion 82 Chapter 4: The Leadership Persona in #FeesMustFall: A Platform for Self-Presentation 83 Juan-Pierre van der Walt Introduction 83 Leadership Persona: An Extension of Power? 85 Persona 88 Celebrity News 91 Affect Clusters 93 Power of Images 95 A Visual Revolution 100 Leadership
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