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Digination: Identity, Organization, and Public Life in the Age of Small Digital Devices and Big Digital Domains
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr
Publication date
June 13, 2014
Pages
309
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781611476996
ISBN-10
1611476992
Dimensions
0.75 by 6.50 by 9.25 in.
Weight
1.10 lbs.
Original list price
$39.99
Other format details
university press
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: The shift from orality to literacy that began with the invention of the phonetic alphabet, and which went into high-gear with Gutenbergâs 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 arenât simply allowing us to communicate faster, farther and with more ease than ever before. We arenât 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 waysâhow 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, itâs how people use technology thatâs the problem is shown to be wanting. Highlighting Marshall McLuhanâs âtetradsâ or laws of media as a primary tool of analysis, R.C. MacDougall argues in line with other media ecologists that itâs not so much how we use certain tools that matters, itâs 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 immersionâthat 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 âwoods"âwe all live in Digination today.
That time-honored trope: the notion that technology is not the problem, rather, itâs how people use technology thatâs the problem is shown to be wanting. Highlighting Marshall McLuhanâs âtetradsâ or laws of media as a primary tool of analysis, R.C. MacDougall argues in line with other media ecologists that itâs not so much how we use certain tools that matters, itâs 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 immersionâthat 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 âwoods"âwe all live in Digination today.
Editions
Hardcover
from Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr (December 16, 2011)
9781611474398 | details & prices | 309 pages | 6.25 × 9.00 × 1.00 in. | 1.30 lbs | List price $85.00
Paperback
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Reprint edition from Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr (June 13, 2014)
9781611476996 | details & prices | 309 pages | 6.50 × 9.25 × 0.75 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $39.99
About: The shift from orality to literacy that began with the invention of the phonetic alphabet, and which went into high-gear with Gutenbergâs printing press more than 500 years ago, helped make the modern world.
About: The shift from orality to literacy that began with the invention of the phonetic alphabet, and which went into high-gear with Gutenbergâs printing press more than 500 years ago, helped make the modern world.
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