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Surrogate [draft] [#digitalkeywords]
“There has been much theorization of the ways in which new media contain the old, but scholars involved in historicist criticism are increasingly making print simulacra into an effigy. Archives of...
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Internet [draft] [#digitalkeywords]
“the blurriness in how we use “internet” has a history and a function: it has allowed the word to become a metonymy – a part that stands for the whole – for a complex, shifting, intertwined mix of...
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Hackers [draft] [#digitalkeywords]
“Hacking, across its various manifestations, can be seen as a site where craft and craftiness converge.” The following is a draft of an essay, eventually for publication as part of the Digital...
View ArticleAnnouncing Digital Keywords (with a 25% Discount) and a Call for More...
I’m thrilled to announce the official publication, by Princeton University Press, of Digital Keywords: A Vocabulary of Information Society and Culture — on the fortieth anniversary of the publication...
View ArticleKeywords: Digital & Analog
The popular opposition between “analog” and “digital,” to put it in a nutshell, is wrong. Two essays in the Digital Keywords volume—Jonathan Sterne’s “Analog” and my own “Digital”—frame this...
View ArticleKeyword: Hacker
In this definitive essay, Gabriella Coleman critiques the stereotype of a hacker as a white male libertarian. In its place, and through a rich history of its varied sources and expressions, she...
View ArticleKeyword: Participation
Christopher Kelty’s broad-minded and brilliant essay on participation is a welcomed participant in the Digital Keywords volume. It both intellectual broadens as well as analytically tightens the...
View ArticleKeyword: Algorithm
The algorithm, Tarleton Gillespie argues in this terrific essay, stands as a complex administrator of modern life. In it Gillespie demystifies the many uses of the recent keyword algorithm, on loan...
View ArticleKeyword: Culture
Culture is a keyword among keywords for Raymond Williams, who contributed to the founding of cultural studies in the 1960s and 1970s. It is among the most common ways to talk about how we talk. In the...
View Article250 (more) Digital Keywords – a Working Resource
Here, as promised, is a list of 250 candidate keywords–the result of our previous call and the Digital Keywords appendix: 250 Digital Keywords (A Working Resource) Just glancing over this list–both a...
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