Towards a Philosophy of Digital Media
This book uses the conceptual tools of philosophy to shed light on digital media and on the way in which they bear upon our existence. At the turn of the century, the rise of digital media significantly changed our world. The digitizing of traditional med
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Edited by Alberto Romele and Enrico Terrone
Towards a Philosophy of Digital Media
Alberto Romele • Enrico Terrone Editors
Towards a Philosophy of Digital Media
Editors Alberto Romele Université Catholique de Lille Lille, France
Enrico Terrone Università di Torino Torino, Italy
Universidade do Porto Porto, Portugal
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Contents
I ntroduction 1 Alberto Romele and Enrico Terrone Part I Digital Media as Recording Devices
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etween Formats and Data: When Communication B Becomes Recording 13 Bruno Bachimont From Capital to Documediality 31 Maurizio Ferraris Recording the Web 51 Janne Nielsen ou Press the Button, We Do the Rest. Personal Archiving Y in Capture Culture 77 Jacek Smolicki
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Part II Consequences of Digital Recording
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cyclopedias, Hive Minds and Global Brains. A Cognitive E Evolutionary Account of Wikipedia 103 Jos de Mul rust, Extended Memories and Social Media 119 T Jacopo Domenicucci Digital Eternities 143 Fanny Georges and Virginie Julliard Safeguarding Without a Record? The Digital Inventories of Intangible Cultural Heritage 165 Marta Severo Part III Digital Media Beyond Recording
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The Unbearable Lightness (and Heaviness) of Being Digital 185 Stacey O’Neal Irwin rom Cellphones to Machine Learning. A Shift in the Role F of the User in Algori
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