Gender and Vernaculars in Digital Humanities and World Literature

Abstract

This article discusses the large-scale and world-encompassing aspirations of digital humanities and world literature and their methodological accordance with the analysis of literature in smaller languages and of texts understood in social, transnational, and gendered contexts. Are Digital Humanities and World Literature establishing themselves as fields utilizing analytical tools that are at odds with the aims and perspectives of feminist literary history and reception history as a part of literary history? We argue that gender research and theory is insufficiently developed in both computational literary history and World Literature. An unproblematic understanding of translations, canonization, English as a global language, and the use of large-scale computational methods and formalized interpretive models is in many cases not beneficial for the understanding of texts by women writers or from feminist perspectives. Drawing on feminist criticism of computational methods and arguments for specialized rather than generalized knowledge about literary history, we propose that digitization in some form, be it a bibliographical database or digitization of a corpus of texts, may be thought of as part of the research process in projects oriented towards gender and cultural exchange.     

A Study of Transnational Communication Among Iranian Migrant Women in Australia

Through the analysis of 25 interviews with Iranian migrant women in Australia, this study shows how living in different communicative environments can affect transnational communication practices. The case of these Iranian transnational families indicates that the digital divide, in terms of information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure and communication capacity, may affect the technological quality of ICT-mediated communication. However, the digital divide does not significantly affect the frequency of communication among these families. The findings illustrate that the Iranian migrants in Australia and their family members overseas developed innovative communication practices and went to great lengths to maintain “ordinary” family interactions across national borders.     

Here be monsters: a choreomaniac's companion to the danse macabre

Consider this a vade mecum: an invitation to “walk with me” through more or less uncanny terrains of worlds in the making in search, of(f) course, of monsters. The search will be delving into the areas of “creepypasta:” pieces of cursed prose and pictures that circulate online, waiting to contaminate and possess the next reader. Using a theoretical framework of posthuman and feminist theory, not least the work done by Jacques Derrida and Donna Haraway, this vade mecum asks what it might mean to engage ethically with that which is not supposed to exist, but which haunts us nonetheless. In other words: what does it mean to move, live and engage with spectres in digital times?     

知识经济时代图书馆面临的机遇、挑战及发展战略

图书馆是伴随着社会对知识的需求产生和发展起来的,当社会经济进一步发展,人类社会进 入知识经济时代,知识对社会的进步将发挥前所未有的重要作用,也使图书馆面临全新的机遇和挑战。 图书馆应制定新的发展战略,以适应知识经济的挑战。     

日本图书馆员职业准入制度及对中国的启示

图书馆员职业准入制度在日本已有上百年的历史,有力地推动了日本图书馆事业的发展,对日本高校图书馆的发展产生了积极的影响.针对中国高校图书馆发展存在的问题,借鉴日本图书馆馆员准入制度提出了中国高校图书馆的发展策略.     

重型颅脑损伤数字计算ERP特征及与智商的相关性

目的 根据ERP理论和韦氏智力量表内容建立数字计算ERP范式,探讨正常人与重型颅脑损伤患者数字计算ERP特征及与智商的相关性.方法 采用Neuroscan-ERP仪和韦氏智力量表对29名重型颅脑损伤患者(外伤组)和46名正常人(对照组)进行ERP及智商检测,比较引出的ERP成分特征及与智商的相关性.结果 数字计算范式的题目、正确、错误答案3类刺激引出的ERP波形包括外源性成分N1c、P2c及内源性成分N2c和P3c;对照组引出的N1c和P2c波幅和潜伏期相近,但N2c和P3c有明显差异,其中正确答案的P3c波幅最高,错误答案的P3c潜伏期最长;外伤组引出的各ERP成分波幅降低、潜伏期延长,N2c和P3c具有显著性差异(P＜0.05);对照组错误答案引出的P3c潜伏期与言语智商和总智商呈中度负相关,高于题目和正确答案;外伤组P3c潜伏期与言语智商、操作智商和总智商的相关系数分别为-0.64、-0.46和-0.60(P ＜0.05),明显高于对照组.结论 数字计算ERP范式可引出特征性ERP波形,其P3c潜伏期与智商有一定相关性,可作为评价重型颅脑损伤后数学能力损害程度的参考指标.     

谈高校图书馆电子资源的利用与建设

随着数字化图书馆的发展,电子资源的建设在图书馆信息资源建设中更显示了重要的地位。目前,国内外的读者对电子资源的认识和需求、读者使用电子资源的方式和倾向,为高校图书馆加强电子资源服务和建设提出了新的挑战。     

刑事数码摄影中应注意的问题

随着数字技术的发展，数码摄影应用于刑事摄影领域也是历史发展的必然。因为数码相机与传统相机存在本质区别，根据实际办案的需要．选择适当数码相机和数字图像存储格式，根据数码相机的原理及其特点，重新认识数码相机的参数，使数码相机在刑事技术中充分发挥其应有的作用。     

网络作品与传统著作权法的悖论——论知识产权保护方法的创新

网络作品和数据信息的繁荣发展对世界各国现行的知识产权制度提出了挑战。因为网络作品和数据信息的表现形式、传输特点、技术含量和经济价值的特殊性,使得其权利更容易被人侵犯,而在保护措施上具有更大的难度。本文笔者结合国内外的理论与实践对网络作品和数据信息的法律保护问题提出了一些看法,对著作权法保护、反不正当竞争法保护和特别法保护作了较为深入的分析,旨在为理论界的研讨和司法界的实务起抛砖引玉作用。     

图书馆与现代社会终身教育

要“构筑终身教育体系 ,创建学习型社会” ,这是一个富有时代精神的战略要求。图书馆与终身教育 ,从时间角度看 ,与人的生命共始终 ,是人们的终身学校 ;从空间上讲 ,与人生活的所有方面都有联系 ,人们可以为自身发展自由地汲取各方面营养 ;从与时俱进发展的观点来看 ,图书馆为实施终身教育提供了知识创新的源泉。