Our present-day experience is heavily influenced by digital technology, evident in various forms such as virtual reality, multimedia, and the World Wide Web. The digital realm spans across numerous domains including digital television, telephony, films, and special effects.
"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).