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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823707703321

Autore

Hand Martin <1971->

Titolo

Making digital cultures : access, interactivity, and authenticity / / Martin Hand

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Aldershot, Hants, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2008

ISBN

1-315-59328-9

1-317-10249-5

1-317-10248-7

1-281-79881-9

9786611798819

0-7546-9356-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 p.)

Disciplina

303.48/33

Soggetti

Digital media - Social aspects

Information society - Social aspects

Information technology - Social aspects

Technological innovations - Social aspects

Technology - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-182) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Making Digital Cultures: An Introduction; 2 Hardware to Everyware: Narratives of Promise and Threat; 3 On the Materials of Digital Culture; 4 A People's Network: Access and the Indefiniteness of Learning; 5 Becoming Direct: Interactivity and the Digital Product; 6 Lost in Translation: Authenticity and the Ontology of the Archive; 7 Conclusion: Loss and Recovery in the Digital Era; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Making Digital Cultures brings together recent theorizing of the 'digital age' with empirical studies of how institutions embrace these technologies in relation to older established technological objects, processes and practices. It asks how relations between 'analogue' and 'digital' are conceptualized and configured both in theory and inside the public library, the business organization and the archive.