Digitality
Digitality (aka digitalism[1]) is used to mean the condition of living in a digital culture, derived from Nicholas Negroponte's book Being Digital[2] in analogy with modernity and post-modernity.
Aspects of digitality include near continuous contact with other people through cell phones,[1] near instantaneous look up of information through the World Wide Web, the third wave information storage where any fragment in a text can be searched and used for categorization, such as through search engine Google, and communicating through weblogs and email. Some of the negative aspects of digitality include computer viruses, loss of anonymity and spam.
With the rapidly growing technology, children at increasingly younger ages are learning to speak through the cyber world rather than in face-to-face conversation. They are becoming more digitally literate and creating a new culture in which they communicate more efficiently online than they do in person.
Development
In the 1990s, scholarship of the effects of interactivity with information began to be written and published, particularly focused on the immediacy and ubiquity of digital communications, the interactivity and participatory nature of digital media, and the role of "shallow" information searches. While in the tradition of Postmodernism in that they presume a decisive role for media in the formation of personality, culture and social order, they differ fundamentally from the analog critical theory, in that the audience has the ability to do more than create a personal idiolectic text, but instead is able to create new texts which reinforce the behavior of other participants. This made it possible to individuals to express themselves through interactivity of digital media.
Although the computer was originally created to complete large scale computations, it ultimately progressed into a processing machine that could retrieve and interpret information very quickly. The first personal computer was first introduced by Ed Roberts in 1975 and this sparked the introduction of other "personal computers". As technology continued to advance, more and more intelligent computers were coming to light with stronger processing power and wider range of utilities.
See also
- Media influence
- Deconstruction
- Postmodernism
- Internet
- Information age
- Critical theory
- Postmodernity
- Modernity
- Digital philosophy
References
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- ^ Negroponte, Nicholas (1995). Being Digital. New York: Vintage Books. p. 255. ISBN 0-679-43919-6.
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