Digital Roots: Historicizing Media and Communication Concepts of the Digital Age

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2021

Digital Roots

Historicizing Media and Communication Concepts of the Digital Age

Edited by: Gabriele Balbi , Nelson Ribeiro , Valérie Schafer and Christian Schwarzenegger
Funded by: University of Luxembourg

Volume 4 in the series Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110740202

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As media environments and communication practices evolve over time, so do theoretical concepts. This book analyzes some of the most well-known and fiercely discussed concepts of the digital age from a historical perspective, showing how many of them have pre-digital roots and how they have changed and still are constantly changing in the digital era. Written by leading authors in media and communication studies, the chapters historicize 16 concepts that have become central in the digital media literature, focusing on three main areas. The first part, Technologies and Connections, historicises concepts like network, media convergence, multimedia, interactivity and artificial intelligence. The second one is related to Agency and Politics and explores global governance, datafication, fake news, echo chambers, digital media activism. The last one, Users and Practices, is finally devoted to telepresence, digital loneliness, amateurism, user generated content, fandom and authenticity. The book aims to shed light on how concepts emerge and are co-shaped, circulated, used and reappropriated in different contexts. It argues for the need for a conceptual media and communication history that will reveal new developments without concealing continuities and it demonstrates how the analogue/digital dichotomy is often a misleading one.

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G. Balbi, Switzerland; N. Ribeiro, Portugal; V. Schafer, Luxembourg; Chr. Schwarzenegger, Germany.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	I
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Digging into Digital Roots. Towards a Conceptual Media and Communication History Gabriele Balbi, Nelson Ribeiro, Valérie Schafer and Christian Schwarzenegger Open Access Download PDF	1
Technologies and Connections
Networks Infrastructures, Materiality, and Communities from Ancient Rome to Social Media Massimo Rospocher and Gabriele Balbi Open Access Download PDF	19
Media Convergence Expanding Perspectives Beyond the Digital John O’Sullivan and Leopoldina Fortunati Open Access Download PDF	41
Multimedia How Educators Made Sense of New Media Multiplicity Katie Day Good Open Access Download PDF	59
Interactivity An In-between State Benjamin Thierry Open Access Download PDF	77
Artificial Intelligence Reframing Thinking Machines Within the History of Media and Communication Paolo Bory, Simone Natale and Dominique Trudel Open Access Download PDF	95
Agency and Politics
Global Governance A Short History of Debates Born with the Telegraph and Popularized by the Internet Francesca Musiani and Valérie Schafer Open Access Download PDF	117
Data(fication) “Understanding the World Through Data” as an Everlasting Revolution Erik Koenen, Christian Schwarzenegger and Juraj Kittler Open Access Download PDF	137
Fake News Tracing the Genesis of a New Term and Old Practices Monika Hanley and Allen Munoriyarwa Open Access Download PDF	157
Echo Chambers A Further Dystopia of Media Generated Fragmentation Maria Löblich and Niklas Venema Open Access Download PDF	177
Digital Media Activism A Situated, Historical, and Ecological Approach Beyond the Technological Sublime Emiliano Treré and Anne Kaun Open Access Download PDF	193
Users and Practices
Telepresence Or, We Have Always Been Ghosts, from Cicero to Computers Jérôme Bourdon Open Access Download PDF	211
Digital Loneliness Asking Too Simple a Question about a Complex Problem Edward Brennan Open Access Download PDF	229
Amateurism Exploring its Multiple Meanings in the Age of Film, Video, and Digital Media Susan Aasman, Tim van der Heijden and Tom Slootweg Open Access Download PDF	245
User-Generated Content (UGC) Understanding the Activity of Media Use in the Age of Digital Reproduction Göran Bolin Open Access Download PDF	267
Fandom Historicized Fandom and the Conversation between East and West Perspectives Eleonora Benecchi and Erika Wang Open Access Download PDF	281
Authenticity Historical Data Integrity and the Layered Materiality of Digital Objects Andreas Fickers Open Access Download PDF	299
Authors Open Access Download PDF	313

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Scholars and students in media history, digital history, information and communication studies.
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 318
Keywords: Digital age; Communication concepts; History; Media studies

eBook

Published: September 7, 2021
ISBN: 9783110740202

Hardcover

Published: September 7, 2021
ISBN: 9783110739886