Aptly using sonic and visual digital tools to introduce An Enchantment of Digital Archaeology, Shawn Graham invites us to take part in what he has dubbed a “practical digital necromancy.” From the video: This is a video about digital archaeology. It’s to support my new book, An Enchantment of Digital Archaeology. One thing that I’d […]
Author Archives: Berghahn Books
Andrew Reinhard | Digital Archaeology: Documenting the Anthropocene
Berghahn Books has launched its new series of titles, Digital Archaeology: Documenting the Anthropocene, with Dr. Shawn Graham’s book, An Enchantment of Digital Archaeology: Raising the Dead with Agent Based Models, Archaeogaming, and Artificial Intelligence. Archaeologists primarily focus on material evidence of human activity and increasingly rely on digital technology to assist in that research. […]
Andrew Reinhard | Portable, Digital Heritage and Memories of Place
September 12 marks the 22nd annual National Video Games Day, a day with hazy origins. When I think about time and video games, a few things come to mind: anniversaries of course, release dates, retirement dates. I found myself wondering: what commercial games premiered in September 1997, the first official #VideoGamesDay (which was the first year I could start buying games for myself with discretionary income)?