Transcoding the Digital

Transcoding the Digital
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Publisher : Instituut Voor Netwerkcultuur
Total Pages : 222
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ISBN-10 : 9081857576
ISBN-13 : 9789081857574
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Book Synopsis Transcoding the Digital by : Marianne Van Den Boomen

Download or read book Transcoding the Digital written by Marianne Van Den Boomen and published by Instituut Voor Netwerkcultuur. This book was released on 2014-02-12 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transcoding the Digital: How Metaphors Matter in New Media by Marianne van den Boomen is a material-semiotic inquiry into the constitutive role of metaphors in our daily encounters with computers and networks. While interface concepts such as desktop and windows are easily recognized as metaphors, this research shows how in fact all digital sign-tool-objects - ranging from icons and email to Facebook friends, from hyperlink and tweet to Pirate Bay - are digital-material metaphors. They frame and organize how we access the black boxes of software and machinery, which in turn organize and reconfigure society. The same holds for discourse metaphors such as virtual community, cyberspace, Web 2.0, and social network. Metaphors matter in digital praxis, literally. This study makes an intervention into the contemporary theory of metaphor by extending it with the notion of material metaphor, including a manifest for hacking digital-material metaphors.


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