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Twitter & world literature: The development of hashtag communities as a global writing practice 推特与世界文学：作为全球写作实践的标签社区的发展

New Techno-Humanities Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.techum.2024.02.001

Christian Howard-Sukhil

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Introduction: Aesthetics of new technological humanities 导言：新技术人文美学

New Techno-Humanities Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.techum.2024.03.001

Youngmin Kim , Jørgen Bruhn

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Considering caring as a safeguard in artificial intelligence 将关爱视为人工智能的保障

New Techno-Humanities Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.techum.2024.01.002

Russell Suereth

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The humanity of the non-human –– Themes of artificial subjectivity in Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun

New Techno-Humanities Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.techum.2023.11.001

Oliver Li, Johan Eddebo

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Erratum regarding missing Declaration of Competing Interest statements in previously published articles

New Techno-Humanities Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.techum.2024.06.003

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The problem of tropospheric temperature trend measurements for global climate models: Complex versus direct empiricism

New Techno-Humanities Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.techum.2024.06.002

Robert Hudson

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Blogs, tweets, and Insta: Digital paratexts in the postcolonial cultural industry 博客、推特和 Insta：后殖民文化产业中的数字副词

New Techno-Humanities Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.techum.2024.05.003

Roopika Risam

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Comments on technological intervention and influence on human communication: From the perspective of folkloristics 关于技术对人类交流的干预和影响的评论：从民俗学的角度

New Techno-Humanities Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.techum.2024.06.001

Chao Gejin

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Narrative traditions of the digital st/age: learning from Indigenous cultures 数字时代的叙事传统：向土著文化学习

New Techno-Humanities Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.techum.2024.01.003

Elizabeth Swift

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Mourning revolutions in the virtual anastasis 虚拟吻合器中的哀悼革命

New Techno-Humanities Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.techum.2024.01.001

Alessandro Caruana

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