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The Stuff of Bits Paul Dourish
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The Stuff of Bits
Paul Dourish
An argument that the material arrangements of informationhow it is represented and interpretedmatter significantly for our experience of information and information systems.
Virtual entities that populate our digital experience, like e-books, virtual worlds, and online stores, are backed by the large-scale physical infrastructures of server farms, fiber optic cables, power plants, and microwave links. But another domain of material constraints also shapes digital living: the digital representations sketched on whiteboards, encoded into software, stored in databases, loaded into computer memory, and transmitted on networks. These digital representations encode aspects of our everyday world and make them available for digital processing. The limits and capacities of those representations carry significant consequences for digital society.
In The Stuff of Bits, Paul Dourish examines the specific materialities that certain digital objects exhibit. He presents four case studies: emulation, the creation of a virtual computer inside another; digital spreadsheets and their role in organizational practice; relational databases and the issue of the databaseable; and the evolution of digital networking and the representational entailments of network protocols. These case studies demonstrate how a materialist account can offer an entry point to broader concernsquestions of power, policy, and polity in the realm of the digital.
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| メディア | 書籍 Paperback Book (ソフトカバーで背表紙を接着した本) |
| リリース済み | 2022年11月1日 |
| ISBN13 | 9780262546522 |
| 出版社 | MIT Press Ltd |
| ページ数 | 256 |
| 寸法 | 150 × 220 × 10 mm · 381 g |
| 言語 | 英語 |