Digital Ubiquity

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"To speak of the digital is to call up, metonymically, the whole panoply of virtual simulacra, instaneous communication, ubiqutous media and global connectiivity that constitutes much of our contemporary experience...as well as the various cultural and artistic responses to the ubiquity of digital technology" (Gere, 2002, p. 15).

Human Genome Project

'virtual'

wired capitalism

'dot-coms'

Apple

Microsoft

net.art

the 'new typography'

Techno and post-pop music

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Wireless Application Protocal (WAP)

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the Internet

multimedia

virtual reality

digital special effects

digital film

electronic music

computer games

digital television

Digital Culture

Convergence

alternate source of media power (Jenkins, 2006, p.

Speed and Dynamic Change

"These include, for example, the annihilation of physical distance and the dissolution of material reality by virtual or telecommunicatin technologies, or the apparent end of the human and the rise of the so-called posthuman as a result of advances in Cybernetics, robotics and research into consciousness and intelligence" (Gere, 2002, p. 15).

"The concurrent develpment of science, media and capital under the aegis of digital technolog produceds a kind of fast-forward effect in which everything appears to tae place at an accelerated rate and to produce dramatic change in a very short time" (Gere, 2002, p. 14).

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Gere suggests that "digital technology is a product of digital culture, rather tha vice versa" (p. 17).

"the machine is always social before it is technical' (Gilles Deleuze) p. 17 - Gere

"It defines and enompasses the ways of thinking and doing that are embodied within that technology, and which meake its development possible

critical theory and philosophy

War

paradigm of abstraction, codification, self-regulation, virtalization and programming as the computer

Rise of Globalization & Free Market Capitalism

computerized banking

Ubiquity of Information and Communication Technologies

convergence of media and communication

Burgeoning Power and Infuence of Techno-Science

Vast data storage capacities

Paradigm shift

Henry Jenkins