Title & Author:

Digital keywords : a vocabulary of information society and culture / edited by Benjamin Peters.

Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2016]
©2016

Description:

xlv, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Princeton studies in culture and technology

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Benjamin Peters -- Activism / Guobin Yang -- Algorithm / Tarleton Gillespie -- Analog / Jonathan Sterne -- Archive / Katherine D. Harris -- Cloud / John Durham Peters -- Community / Rosemary Avance -- Culture / Ted Striphas -- Democracy / Rasmus Kleis Nielsen -- Digital / Benjamin Peters -- Event / Julia Sonnevend -- Flow / Sandra Braman -- Forum / Hope Forsyth -- Gaming / Saugata Bhaduri -- Geek / Christina Dunbar-Hester -- Hacker / Gabriella Coleman -- Information / Bernard Geoghegan -- Internet / Thomas Streeter -- Meme / Limor Shifman -- Memory / Steven Schrag -- Mirror / Adam Fish -- Participation / Christopher Kelty -- Personalization / Stephanie Ricker Schulte -- Prototype / Fred Turner -- Sharing / Nicholas A. John -- Surrogate / Jeffrey Drouin -- Appendix: Over two hundred digital keywords -- About the contributors.

Summary:

"In the age of search, keywords increasingly organize research, teaching, and even thought itself. Inspired by Raymond Williams's 1976 classic Keywords, the timely collection Digital Keywords gathers pointed, provocative short essays on more than two dozen keywords by leading and rising digital media scholars from the areas of anthropology, digital humanities, history, political science, philosophy, religious studies, rhetoric, science and technology studies, and sociology. Digital Keywords examines and critiques the rich lexicon animating the emerging field of digital studies. This collection broadens our understanding of how we talk about the modern world, particularly of the vocabulary at work in information technologies. Contributors scrutinize each keyword independently: for example, the recent pairing of digital and analog is separated, while classic terms such as community, culture, event, memory, and democracy are treated in light of their historical and intellectual importance. Metaphors of the cloud in cloud computing and the mirror in data mirroring combine with recent and radical uses of terms such as information, sharing, gaming, algorithm, and internet to reveal previously hidden insights into contemporary life. Bookended by a critical introduction and a list of over two hundred other digital keywords, these essays provide concise, compelling arguments about our current mediated condition. Digital Keywords delves into what language does in today's information revolution and why it matters."--Publisher's description.

ISBN:

9780691167336 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0691167338 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780691167343 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0691167346 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

In'formation Musikgruppe
Computers and civilization.
Information society Terminology.
Digital media Terminology.
Culture Terminology.
Sociolinguistics.
Vocabulary.
English language Etymology.
English language Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Ordinateurs et civilisation.
Société informatisée Terminologie.
Médias numériques Terminologie.
Sociolinguistique.
Anglais (Langue) Étymologie.
sociolinguistics.
Computers and IT.
English language.
Gesellschaft
Informationsgesellschaft
Kulturwissenschaften
Moderne
Neue Medien
Schlüsselwort
Soziolinguistik
Soziologie
Terminologie
Wortschatz
Digitalisierung

Form/genre:

Glossaries.
controlled vocabularies.
Controlled vocabularies.
Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Vocabulaires contrôlés.

Added entries:

Peters, Benjamin, 1980- editor.
Princeton studies in culture and technology.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 309752
Call No.: BIB 253630
Status: Available

Location: Library main 292749
Call No.: BIB 237176
Status: Available