Towards a Philosophy of Digital Media

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Romele, Alberto (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Terrone, Enrico (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Modern philosophy.; Social sciences-Philosophy.; Culture.; Technology.; Communication.; Philosophy of Technology.; Modern Philosophy.; Social Philosophy.; Culture and Technology.; Media and Communication.

This book uses the conceptual tools of philosophy to shed light on digital media and on the way in which they bear upon our existence. At the turn of the century, the rise of digital media significantly changed our world. The digitizing of traditional media has extraordinarily increased the circulat...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction; Alberto Romele and Enrico Terrone
• Part I. Digital Media as Recording Devices
• 2. Between Formats and Data. When Communication Becomes Recording; Bruno Bachimont
• 3. From Capital to Documediality; Maurizio Ferraris
• 4. Recording the Web; Janne Nielsen
• 5. You Press the Button, We Do the Rest; Jacek Smolicki. Part II. Consequences of Digital Recording
• 6. Cognitive Space, Global Brains, and the Hive Mind; Jos de Mul
• 7. Interpersonal Trust in an Age of Records; Jacopo Domenicucci
• 8. Digital Eternities; Fanny Georges and Virginie Julliard
• 9. Safeguarding Without a Record?; Marta Severo
• Part III. Digital Media Beyond Recording
• 10. The Unbearable Lightness (and Heaviness) of Being Digital; Stacey O'Neil Irwin
• 11. From Cellphones to Machine Learning; Galit Wellner
• 12. A Philosophy of "Doing" in the Digital; Stefano Gualeni
• 13. From Registration to Emagination; Alberto Romele
• Index.