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metadata.dc.title: Defining digitalities III
Title addition: What’s digital about digital media?
Authors: Haigh, Thomas 
Gießmann, Sebastian 
Institute: DFG-Sonderforschungsbereich 1187 "Medien der Kooperation" 
Free keywords: Claude Shannon, Information theory, Digitality, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Nelson Goodman
Dewey Decimal Classification: 302.23 Medien (Kommunikationsmittel), Medienwissenschaft
GHBS-Clases: KNZT
Issue Date: 2023
Publish Date: 2023
Series/Report no.: Working paper series / SFB 1187 Medien der Kooperation 
Abstract: 
In this working paper we explore an alternative thread in the early development of media and medium as concepts: the origins of the idea of the storage medium in digital computing practices and communities of the 1940s and 1950s. While such practices were obscure at the time, they laid the technological foundation for today’s range of digital media. We discuss digitality as a feature of the practices used to read and write symbols from a medium, not a physical property of the medium itself. We then move on to a discussion of the alphabet as itself digital, grounded in the work of Nelson Goodman. Engaging with the contributions of Matthew Kirschenbaum, we explore the limited interchangeability of representations between different encodings of the same symbols, connecting the purported immateriality of digitality to this actual fungibility of material representations.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25819/ubsi/10261
URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:467-24543
URI: https://dspace.ub.uni-siegen.de/handle/ubsi/2454
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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