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Making digital cultures : access, interactivity, and authenticity
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Making Digital Cultures brings together recent theorizing of the 'digital age' with empirical studies of how institutions embrace these technologies in relation to older established technological o...
Making Digital Cultures brings together recent theorizing of the 'digital age' with empirical studies of how institutions embrace these technologies in relation to older established technological objects, processes and practices. It asks how relations between 'analogue' and 'digital' are conceptualized and configured both in theory and inside the public library, the business organization and the archive.
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- Creator
- Martin Hand
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2008
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (199 p.)
- ISBNs
- 1281798819, 1317102495, 0754648400, 1317102487, 1315593289, 9786611798819, 9780754648406, 0754693562
- OCLC
- ocn437137969, ocn503445303, ocn196302141
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-182) and index.
- English
- Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Making Digital Cultures: An Introduction; 2 Hardware to Everyware: Narratives of Promise and Threat; 3 On the Materials of Digital Culture; 4 A People's Network: Access and the Indefiniteness of Learning; 5 Becoming Direct: Interactivity and the Digital Product; 6 Lost in Translation: Authenticity and the Ontology of the Archive; 7 Conclusion: Loss and Recovery in the Digital Era; Bibliography; Index