ISBN:
1787436683
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1787439615
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9781787436688
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9781787439610
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (210 pages)
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
Digital Activism and Society : Politics, Economy and Culture in Network Communication
Series Statement:
Digital Activism and Society
Series Statement:
Politics, Economy and Culture in Network Communication
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Gottlieb, Baruch Digital Materialism : Origins, Philosophies, Prospects
DDC:
306.46
Keywords:
Material culture Technological innovations
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Digital media
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Technology Social aspects
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Communication studies
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Industries ; Media & Communications
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING ; Telecommunications
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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Digital media
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Technology ; Social aspects
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Front Cover; Digital Materialism; Contents; About the Author; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. DOM (Domestication); Materiality: Aesthetics and Anaesthetics; DATA; Natural Data; 2. ABS (Abstraction); 3. AUT (Automation); Use Case: Gramophone; Use Case: ATM; Speed-up of the Stripped Down: Anaesthetics; Chronocracy; History as a Product; Electrification; Regulation; 4. DIG (Digitization); Digital and Analogue; The Status of Knowledge; 5. FAB (Fabrication); Two Technical Images: Higgs Boson and the HUDF; Higgs Boson: The God Particle; HUDF; 6. MAT (Materialization)
Abstract:
Persistence of Anthropomorphism: PoliticsMedia Ecology; New Materialism; Structural Challenges to Technological Emancipation: Socially Necessary Discipline; 7. EMA (Emancipation); Freedom from Truth, Freedom for Facts; Let a Million Simulated Cybersyns Bloom!; Postscript; References; Index
Abstract:
Digital materiality (digimat) proposes a set of basic principles for how we understand the world through digital processes. This short book sets out a methodical materialist understanding of digital technologies, where they come from, how they work, and what they do
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