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Book Summary
We live in a digital age, buy and sell in a digital economy, and consume--oh do
we consume--digital media. The digital lies at the heart of our contemporary,
information-heavy, media-saturated lives, and although we may talk about the
digital as a cultural phenomenon, the thing itself--digitality--is often hidden
to us, a technology that someone else has invented and that lives buried inside
our computers, tablets, and smartphones. In this book, Robin Boast follows the
video streams and social media posts to their headwaters in order to ask: What,
exactly, is the digital? Boast tackles this fundamental question by exploring
the origins of the digital and showing
ISBN-13
9781780237398
Language
English
Binding
Hard Bound
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Publishing Date
2017-03-15
Total Pages
224
The Machine in the Ghost: Digitality and Its Consequences
We live in a digital age, buy and sell in a digital economy, and consume--oh do
we consume--digital media. The digital lies at the heart of our contemporary,
information-heavy, media-saturated lives, and although we may talk about the
digital as a cultural phenomenon, the thing itself--digitality--is often hidden
to us, a technology that someone else has invented and that lives buried inside
our computers, tablets, and smartphones. In this book, Robin Boast follows the
video streams and social media posts to their headwaters in order to ask: What,
exactly, is the digital? Boast tackles this fundamental question by exploring
the origins of the digital and showing