COMN 3550 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: George Boole, Claude Shannon, Indexicality
24 Jan 2018
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Analog/digital: williams keywords was organized around the claim that the history of language could be used to study the historical development of culture and society. How words mutate over time; how they take on new meanings. The introduction of digital media, has had a number of effects which shifted the way we interact, talk act, speak, etc. Culture is a repository of thoughts and the way we conceive a potential. As digital culture has become dominant it has changed the meaning of words and their significance. Meaning is relations (saussure) it is not so much that a word has meaning on its own but the other words give it meaning. Ex; emergence of variations of colours the arrival of the digital brings about other semantic changes. With the arrival of digital media the word analogue brought about an oppositional term. How digital culture has changed the meaning of the world buffer.
