{"id":8177,"date":"2020-01-29T08:36:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T07:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fr\/events\/whats-digital-about-digital-history\/"},"modified":"2020-01-29T08:36:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T07:36:17","slug":"whats-digital-about-digital-history","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fr\/events\/whats-digital-about-digital-history\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Digital About Digital History"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-free-section section\"><div class=\"container xl:max-w-screen-xl\"><p>We talk a lot about \u201cthe digital\u201d or \u201cdigital humanities\u201d but rarely stop to ask what \u201cdigital\u201d really means in this context or how the digitality of the digital computer might explain its unique trajectory from obscure scientific instrument in the 1940s to the underpinning of almost every social interaction and business process in the 2010s. Prof. Haigh sketches a new approach to the history of computing centered on these questions and engaged with the tools of STS and media theory. The aim is to ground the emerging field of digital studies in a historically responsible conception of digitality, beginning with the core affordance of digital reading and showing how this underpins later developments such as algorithmic control, modularity, and layered protocols. This builds on his work with the Media of Cooperation project at Siegen University, the collection <i>Exploring the Early Digital<\/i> (2019) and a current project <i>Becoming Digital<\/i>.<\/p><p><strong>Thomas Haigh<\/strong> is a Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin\u2014Milwaukee and Comenius Visiting Professor for the History of Computing at Siegen University in Germany. He is the lead author of ENIAC in Action (MIT, 2016) and the editor of Histories of Computing (Harvard, 2011) and Exploring the Early Digital (Springer, 2019). Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomandmaria.com\/tom\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">www.tomandmaria.com\/tom<\/a>.<\/p><p>The conference will be moderated by Val\u00e9rie Schafer (C\u00b2DH).<\/p><p><\/p><p>Free entrance, no reservation needed.<\/p><\/div><\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8178,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_image_focal_point":[],"show_featured_caption":false,"ulux_newsletter_groups":"","uluxPostTitle":"","uluxPrePostTitle":"","_trash_the_other_posts":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"event_start_date":"2020-03-05 11:00:00","event_end_date":"2020-03-05 12:30:00","event_speaker_name":"Thomas Haigh","event_speaker_link":"","event_is_online":false,"event_location":"Maison des Sciences humaines, 4th floor\r\nC\u00b2DH Open space","event_street":"11, Porte des Sciences","event_location_link":"","event_zip_code":"L-4366","event_city":"Esch-sur-Alzette","event_country":"LU"},"events-topic":[312],"events-type":[],"organisation":[221,226],"authorship":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v22.3) - 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