Friending the Past: The Sense of History and Social Computing (Q2666)
scholarly work by Alan Liu
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Friending the Past: The Sense of History and Social Computing |
scholarly work by Alan Liu |
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2011
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The digital sense of history may not be history as it really was, but it is information as it should really be: an experience of mediated communication that—as a condition of what it means to be social—is historical to the core. (English)
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My argument is that the amplest experience of sociality includes the society that is history, and social media will be more fully human if it remembers that. (English)
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Cultural-political theorists of digital-age “empire” (in the tradition of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri), academic critics of new media, and hactivist or tactical-media theorists (in the tradition of the Critical Art Ensemble) point out in various ways that Web 2.0 is still complicit with the confining structures of history. (English)
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