Digital Culture
Henry Jenkins
Paradigm shift
Burgeoning Power and Infuence of Techno-Science
Vast data storage capacities
Ubiquity of Information and Communication Technologies
convergence of media and communication
Rise of Globalization & Free Market Capitalism
computerized banking
Gere suggests that "digital technology is a product of digital culture, rather tha vice versa" (p. 17).
paradigm of abstraction, codification, self-regulation, virtalization and programming as the computer
War
critical theory and philosophy
"It defines and enompasses the ways of thinking and doing that are embodied within that technology, and which meake its development possible
"the machine is always social before it is technical' (Gilles Deleuze) p. 17 - Gere
Raymond Williams - way of life of a group or people at a certain perios of history
Speed and Dynamic Change
"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).
"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).
Convergence
alternate source of media power (Jenkins, 2006, p.
"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).
digital television
computer games
electronic music
digital film
digital special effects
virtual reality
multimedia
the Internet
the World Wide Web
digital telephony
Wireless Application Protocal (WAP)
Cyberpunk novels and films
Techno and post-pop music
the 'new typography'
net.art
wired capitalism
Microsoft
Apple
'dot-coms'