Simanowski, Roberto2019-09-062019-09-062016978-1-78542-031-3https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/12654There is no doubt that we live in exciting times: Ours is the age of many ‘silent revolutions’ triggered by startups and research labs of big IT companies; revolutions that quietly and profoundly alter the world we live in. Another ten or five years, and self-tracking will be as normal and inevitable as having a Facebook account or a mobile phone. Our bodies, hooked to wearable devices sitting directly at or beneath the skin, will constantly transmit data to the big aggregation in the cloud. Permanent recording and automatic sharing will provide unabridged memory, both shareable and analyzable. The digitization of everything will allow for comprehensive quantification; predictive analytics and algorithmic regulation will prove themselves effective and indispensable ways to govern modern mass society. Given such prospects, it is neither too early to speculate on the possible futures of digital media nor too soon to remember how we expected it to develop ten, or twenty years ago. The observations shared in this book take the form of conversations about digital media and culture centered around four distinct thematic fields: politics and government, algorithm and censorship, art and aesthetics, as well as media literacy and education. Among the keywords discussed are: data mining, algorithmic regulation, sharing culture, filter bubble, distant reading, power browsing, deep attention, transparent reader, interactive art, participatory culture. The interviewees (mostly from the US, but also from France, Brazil, and Denmark) were given a set of common questions as well specific inquiries tailored to their individual areas of interest and expertise. As a result, the book both identifies different takes on the same issues and enables a diversity of perspectives when it comes to the interviewees’ particular concerns.<ul> <li><a href='http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/11911'>Roberto Simanowski: <i>Introduction</i></a></li> <li><a href='http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/11912'>Johanna Drucker: <i>At the intersection of computational methods and the traditional humanities</i></a></li> <li><a href='http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/11913'>John Cayley: <i>Of Capta, vectoralists, reading and the Googlization of universities</i></a></li> <li><a href='http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/11914'>Erick Felinto: <i>Mediascape, antropotechnics, culture of presence, and the flight from God</i></a></li> <li><a href='http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/11915'>David Golumbia: <i>Computerization always promotes centralization even as it promotes decentralization</i></a></li> <li><a href='http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/11916'>Ulrik Ekman: <i>Network Societies 2.0: The extension of computing into the social and human environment</i></a></li> <li><a href='http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/11917'>Mihai Nadin: <i>Enslaved by digital technology</i></a></li> <li><a href='http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/11918'>Nick Montfort: <i>Self-monitoring and corporate interests</i></a></li> <li><a href='http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/11919'>Rodney Jones: <i>The age of print literacy and ‘deep critical attention’ is filled with war, genocide and environmental devastation</i></a></li> <li><a href='http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/11921'>Diane Favro et al.: <i>Surfing the web, algorithmic criticism and Digital Humanities</i></a></li> <li><a href='http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/11922'>N. Katherine Hayles: <i>Opening the depths, not sliding on surfaces</i></a></li> <li><a href='http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/11923'>Jay David Bolter: <i>From writing space to designing mirrors</i></a></li> <li><a href='http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/11924'>Bernard Stiegler: <i>Digital knowledge, obsessive computing, short-termism and need for a negentropic Web</i></a></li> </ul>engDigital Humanities00000410.25969/mediarep/11745