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Digination - Identity, Organization, and Public Life in the Age of Small Digital Devices and Big Digital Domains (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R2,137
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Digination - Identity, Organization, and Public Life in the Age of Small Digital Devices and Big Digital Domains (Hardcover,...

Digination - Identity, Organization, and Public Life in the Age of Small Digital Devices and Big Digital Domains (Hardcover, New)

Robert C. Macdougall

Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Communication Studies

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The shift from orality to literacy that began with the invention of the phonetic alphabet, and which went into high-gear with Gutenberg's printing press more than 500 years ago, helped make the modern world. Some commentators have argued that this shift from orality to literacy marked a much broader, cultural shift of cataclysmic proportions. Today, with everything from e-mail to blogs, iPods and podcasts, through Google, Yahoo, eBay, and with cutting-edge smart phones, we find ourselves developing relationships with these newest communication tools that aren't simply allowing us to communicate faster, farther and with more ease than ever before. We aren't just moving around ideas, data, and information at unimaginable speed and scale. Our interminglings and fusions with digital communication technologies are also altering both individual and group consciousness in fundamental ways-how we form and sustain relationships, how we think and perceive, what it means to see and to feel. We are remaking human identity once more, and manufacturing a new kind of culture along the way. The processes bound up in our digination may well be consequential to the trajectory of human evolution. That time-honored trope: the notion that technology is not the problem, rather, it's how people use technology that's the problem is shown to be wanting. Highlighting Marshall McLuhan's "tetrads" or laws of media as a primary tool of analysis, R.C. MacDougall argues in line with other media ecologists that it's not so much how we use certain tools that matters, it's that we use them. More than any other technological form perhaps, communication technologies play particularly powerful and systemic roles in our culture, or any culture for that matter. Late adopters and even abstainers are not exempt from the psychological, social and cultural effects (and side-effects) of modern digital communication technology. While there are certainly varying degrees of immersion-that is to say, while some of us live in the high-rise downtown district, some at the city limits, and still others out in the proverbial "woods"-we all live in Digination today.

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Imprint: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Communication Studies
Release date: December 2011
First published: December 2011
Authors: Robert C. Macdougall
Dimensions: 240 x 162 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-1-61147-439-8
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Impact of science & technology on society
Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > General
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LSN: 1-61147-439-6
Barcode: 9781611474398

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