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Defining Digitalities II: What’s Digital About Digital Communication?

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dc.creatorHaigh, Thomas
dc.creatorGießmann, Sebastian
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-18T12:14:31Z
dc.date.available2023-09-18T12:14:31Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractAlthough the distinction between digital and analog was first made in the context of automatic computers, the concepts were quickly broadened to apply to media and communication systems of all kinds. This working paper continues work on both fronts by looking at the his- torical broadening of the concept of digitality to include non-numerical systems of representation such as those used to encode text and pic- tures. This conception underlies the ability of computers to deal with things other than numbers, but it has its roots in communications the- ory, most famously in the work of Claude Shannon. In parallel with our historical description of the emergence of non-numerical conceptions of digitality we broaden our analytical treatment of digitality to en- compass more historical technologies and reading practices: not only adding machines and punched cards, but also musical boxes, weaving systems, movable type, and even alphabets and hand gestures.en
dc.identifier.doidoi.org/10.25819/ubsi/10260
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/20047
dc.identifier.issnissn:2567–2517
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/21260
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherUniversität Siegen
dc.publisher.placeSiegen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectDefningen
dc.subjectDigitalitiesen
dc.subjectDigitalen
dc.subjectDigital Communicationen
dc.subject.ddcddc:700
dc.titleDefining Digitalities II: What’s Digital About Digital Communication?en
dc.typebook
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.academicbookseriesMedien der Kooperation
local.coverpage2023-09-18T14:25:29
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://dspace.ub.uni-siegen.de/handle/ubsi/2453
local.source.volume31

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