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Defining Digitalities I: What’s Digital about Digits?

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dc.creatorHaigh, Thomas
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-18T12:14:31Z
dc.date.available2023-09-18T12:14:31Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractModern discourses emphasizes electronic immateriality as the defining feature of digital technology. The idea that digits might be digital when punched onto cards, or even written on a piece of pa- per, is no longer intuitive. Yet by reconstructing the context in which the categories of digital and analog were first distinguished histori- cally in the 1940s, I argue that the concept of digitality is rooted in the mechanical representation of digits in early computers, which con- temporary observers immediately recognized was shared with earlier technologies such as telephone switching systems, punched cards, and calculating devices. Digitality is not a feature of an object itself, but of the way that object is read (whether by human or by machine) as encoding symbols chosen from a finite set. In conclusion, digitality is constituted through reading practices.en
dc.identifier.doidoi.org/10.25819/ubsi/10259
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/20046
dc.identifier.issnissn:2567–2517
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/21259
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherUniversität Siegen
dc.publisher.placeSiegen
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectDefningen
dc.subjectDigitalitiesen
dc.subjectDigitalen
dc.subjectDigitsen
dc.subject.ddcddc:700
dc.titleDefining Digitalities I: What’s Digital about Digits?en
dc.typebook
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.academicbookseriesMedien der Kooperation
local.coverpage2023-09-18T14:25:57
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://dspace.ub.uni-siegen.de/handle/ubsi/2452
local.source.volume30

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