Overview
- Overview of fundamental questions of mediality and digitality
- With many concrete examples
- Interface analyses as a new strategy in media studies
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Dealing with digitality is one of the most urgent challenges of the present. The increasing importance and spread of computer technology not only challenges societies and individuals - this development also puts pressure on the concept of digitality, which tries to grasp the totality and peculiarity of the conditions and consequences of electronic digital computing (in all its forms). However, precisely because digitality is commonplace, so should be its critique, its analysis and assessment.
How can an analysis do justice to both fundamental characteristics and changing concrete forms, infrastructures, and practices? How do the developments of a digitalization that programmatically encompasses forms of networking, embedding, and autonomization shape media, cultures, and societies? How do "artificial intelligence" and "algorithmic government" relate to each other, how does the immateriality of "the digital" fit with the materiality of computers? How does the changing status and scope of this technology mediate itself?
This book introduces ongoing debates and develops its own approach to the critique of digitality, asking about forms of interfaces and processes of governance.
This book is a translation of the original German 1st edition Kritik der Digitalität by Jan Distelmeyer, published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2021. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Prof. Dr. Jan Distelmeyer teaches media history and theory in the cooperative study program European Media Studies at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences and the University of Potsdam.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Critique of Digitality
Authors: Jan Distelmeyer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-36978-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Wiesbaden
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-36977-4Published: 13 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-36978-1Published: 12 October 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 141
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations
Topics: Digital/New Media, Popular Culture , Media Sociology, Audio-Visual Culture