Digital Culture is a term that evokes thought-provoking questions. What is digital culture? Does digital culture have strict guidelines surrounding the concepts linked to its meaning and significance? These are questions that can illicit a myriad of meanings. This is what I find peculiar and interesting about the culture of the digital age — there is not simply one interpretation. Each person who comes into contact with digital culture on an independent scale will have different experiences and interpretations. For me, digital culture is all-encompassing. What this references is the idea that everything in the digital age shares a correlation. Twitter, Instagram, Google, Facebook, Snapchat, and digital text together create a united cohesion. The concept of digital culture produces many facets such as: social media, remediation, actualization, cyberspace, visualization, veracity, virtuality, and collective intelligence. These facets provide the public with an opportunity to be involved in the advancement of technology. The information collected from each platform is analyzed and used as a means to update and create a user-friendly interface and experience. This is an aspect that truly intrigues me because it ultimately means I am part of the advancement of technology. My thoughts, knowledge and personal testimony can be used to further technological advancement. Though there are many facets within digital culture that intrigue me, I am most fascinated with the concepts of remediation, virtuality and collective intelligence. These concepts fascinate me because they are extremely important in the analysis and future development of digital culture.
In an era of constant digitalization, remediation, virtuality and collective intelligence, an influx of information is evident and prevalent… where would our society be without the analysis of our collected knowledge? Where would our society be without updated versions of the most famous literary marvels? Where would our society be without the advancement of virtuality? Together these ideals constantly update our culture and society. Our collective knowledge and information can be used as a means to analyze and explore how to remediate, digitize and virtualize our thoughts. Our collective knowledge can be used as a means to keep text alive… keep the art of storytelling alive. Together, these themes resemble a schematic — the first step is to gather the collective knowledge of the population, the next step is to analyze the information and remediate it to another medium, and lastly the remediated collective intelligence is then digitized on a virtual scale. This digitized schematic connects to my final project in a way that helps spread awareness of important literary messages. Literary messages that are now a member of digital culture. As my teammate and I compare, contrast, analyze and translate the original dialect of Petrarch’s Canzoniere juxtaposed to the English version in tweet form, we want to expand awareness of the translation art, maintain the historical essence of the original work, and propagate the existence of an interactive digitized format. With the help of concepts such as remediation, we are hoping that future students will continue in our footprints as media archaeologists who fight to keep any literary works alive for future generations.
I’m very intrigued by the questions you’ve asked. I feel that we, as a society, don’t really put any thought into the process in which technology advances and to think that we help provide feedback on what works or doesn’t is incredible. If we didn’t have that method of analysis then who knowns where our society would be. Definitely not one that has advanced this quickly. Great post! Thanks for the different perspective on the subject!