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Structures of Participation in Digital Culture
Joe . Ed(S): Karaganis
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paperback. Editor(s): Karaganis, Joe. Series: A Columbia / SSRC Book. Num Pages: 284 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 590.
Digital technologies are engines of cultural innovation, from the virtualization of group networks and social identities to the digital convergence of textural and audio-visual media. User-centered content production, from Wikipedia and YouTube to Open Source, has become the emblem of this transformation, but the changes run deeper and wider than these novel organizational forms. Digital culture is also about the transformation of what it means to be a creator within a vast and growing reservoir of media, data, computational power, and communicative possibilities. We have few tools and models for understanding the power of databases, network representations, filtering techniques, digital ... Read more
Digital technologies are engines of cultural innovation, from the virtualization of group networks and social identities to the digital convergence of textural and audio-visual media. User-centered content production, from Wikipedia and YouTube to Open Source, has become the emblem of this transformation, but the changes run deeper and wider than these novel organizational forms. Digital culture is also about the transformation of what it means to be a creator within a vast and growing reservoir of media, data, computational power, and communicative possibilities. We have few tools and models for understanding the power of databases, network representations, filtering techniques, digital ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Social Science Research Council United States
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
Series
A Columbia / SSRC Book
Number of Pages
284
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9780979077227
SKU
V9780979077227
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99-15
About Joe . Ed(S): Karaganis
Joe Karaganis is a program director at the Social Science Research Council in New York. His work focuses on changes in the organization of cultural production in the digital context and on the intersection between information policy and social practice. He directs two programs at the SSRC: Necessary Knowledge for a Democratic Public Sphere and Culture, Creativity, and Information Technology. ... Read more
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