Advances in Techno-Humanities

This book is a pioneering attempt to explore the relationships between technology and the humanities through case studies and specific contexts in the areas of language, theatre, literature, translation, philosophy, music, home designations, learning environment, and artificial intelligence. Written by scholars and specialists across various fields, the chapters explore the emerging field of techno-humanities. This book examines the development of language and society by means of Big Data, how technology is integrated into the theatres of Hong Kong and the ensuing results of such integration. The authors also highlight how technology is able to analyse, understand, and visualise literary works and to bring drastic changes to translation in the past seven decades. Long-standing philosophical issues are re-examined, linkages between technology and theoretical concepts are illuminated, and the emotional aspects of computational applications are investigated. This book also delves into insightful case studies such as providing suggestions to train novice translators through corpus-assisted translation teaching, analysing patterns of housing names, and discovering a new online method to acknowledge acquisition through authentic learning experiences. Overall, this book serves as a point of departure for us to go deeper into the role of technology in transforming the humanities in this digital age. This is a useful read for students and scholars interested in learning more about the cross section between humanities and technology.

Mak Kin-wah is President of Caritas Institute of Higher Education, which strongly supports Techno-Humanities teaching and hosts a research centre dedicated to this purpose. He holds the degrees of PhD and MPhil from Cambridge University, an MBA from City University London, and a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Western Australia.

Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Introduction Mak Kin-wah Chapter 1 Towards the Identification and Tracking of Salient Traits and Their Developments in Chinese Society via Big Data Benjamin Tsou Ka Yin, Kelly Mak, and Kenny Mok Chapter 2 Techno-Humanities: Some Trends of the Portrayal of Science in Art on the Hong Kong Stage Thomas Luk Yun-tong Chapter 3 Densities and Fugitive Vectors Grant Hamilton Chapter 4 Revisiting the Future of Translation Technology Chan Sin-wai Chapter 5 The Idea of "Techno-Philosophy" and "Philosophy-aided Technology, with Social Networking as an Example Ying Koon Kau Chapter 6 Corpus-assisted Translation Learning: Attitudes and Perceptions of Novice Translation Students Su Yanfang, Liu Jianwen, and Liu Kanglong Chapter 7 What Is an "Ideal" Home? A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of the Housing Names and TV Advertisements in Hong Kong Lam Yee Man, Benson Lam Shu Yan, and Ng Kwan-kwan Chapter 8 A Conceptual Framework for Integrated Immersive Learning with Metaverse and Student-generated Media Paulina Wong Pui Yun, Gary Wong Wai Chung, and Daniel Shen Jiandong Chapter 9 Problems of Exacerbation to Dasein in the Modern Technological World by Use of the Early Heidegger's Theories: Readiness-to-hand and Presence-at-hand Jeff Lau Hok-yin Chapter 10 Ethically Speaking: Opportunities and Risks of AI Chatbots Showing Empathy to Customers during Service Encounters Yeung Wing Lok Index