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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Digitality"”.
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Film, Video, and Digitality: An Analysis of Cultural Form in Time-based Media
This thesis examines the material properties of time-based image media, in particular live video. The project is practice-based with a theoretical underpinning drawn from the debates on form and meaning associated with Walter Benjamin.
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Making digital history: The impact of digitality on public participation and scholarly practices in historical research
… history and then focuses on the impact of digitality on the research practices of faculty and community historians. Chapter 1 provides an overview of over 400 digital history projects aimed at engaging the public or collecting, creating or enhancing records about historical materials for …
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Synchronizing Glitches as Internetworked Entities
… expression enhances the way we coexist with digitality.
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com-posing abolitionist≠posthumanism: notes on incommensurability, incomputability and incognita syn-aesthetics
… race feminisms, non-philosophy and theories on digitality, i pose incommensurability, incomputability and incognita syn-aesthetics as moments for desedimenting “the Human” as a genre of being in which the logics of recognition, legibility, exposure and transparency circumscribe a carceral …
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‘It’s all a cover up!’: An Examination of Epistemic Vices and Conspiracy Theories in the Internet Age
… In this paper, I aim to address the era of digitality in which we live, asking and answering fundamental questions such as: what is fake news? How harmful are conspiracy theories? Has there been a shift in the conspiracy theory paradigm? And is there a way to prevent conspiracy theory …
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A curriculum on the fabrication of clouds
… drawings addressing analogicity and digitality; a workbook documenting methodology, and an architectural move. A Curriculum is a demonstrative case for drawing as research, and a view into designer-experimenters who research through drawing (and inevitably, research drawing).
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Chronic Pain Beyond Measure: E-Health and the Politics of Pain Care
… This dissertation describes the emergence of digitality in chronic pain medicine, the ideological backdrop of this paradigm, and how technoscientific practices impact the lives of people living with chronic pain in Canada. The findings of this research rely on qualitative data and theoretical …
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The desire to upload: a theological analysis of transhumanist advocacy for life-extension and immortality
… on the third way, digital immortality, because digitality can serve as a framework for further human enhancement that goes beyond mere life-extension, and thus has nearly unlimited potential to transform the human condition, and also because some forms of digital immortality are already …
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Hallucinating Facts: Psychedelic Science and the Epistemic Power of Data
… a theoretical study of the relationship between digitality, knowledge, and power in the age of Big Data. My argument is that human medical research on psychedelic substances supports a critique of what I call "the data episteme." I use "episteme" in the sense developed by philosopher Michel …
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The Level Game: Architectures of Play in American Fiction and Theory, 1968–2018
… five contrastingly explores the thematisation of digitality in fiction, where levels are used in a teleological sense to denote progress in video games and commercial gamification strategies. Chapter six elaborates on the theme of technology by discussing levels in relation to networks, comparing …
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Finding the spaces between forms: An inquiry into memory work through the intermedial interplay between media and presence
… Khan and Geoffrey Diver, gathering in the age of digitality was explored through an intermedial performance practice. This resulted in a live-streamed telematic performance (or what I call a Zoomformance), now remediated into an Instagram exhibition. These projects were titled, Hybrid but Human: …
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Spirit and the letter : trauma, warblogs and the public sphere
… for the further utilisation of the digitality of the medium, both in Lebanon and further afield, based on the urgent need for dialogue in multicultural societies, and the value of civil engagement in the rhetorical public sphere. The innovative potential of electronic public space …
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Virulence and Digital Culture
This dissertation is a theoretical study of the role of virality/virulence as a predominant technological term in the reproduction of social and cultural information in the digital age. I argue that viral media are not new phenomena, only the name is new. Media have always behaved as viruses; it is …
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Bounded Surface
The relationship between surface, perception, and structure has occupied my graduate studies. Locating, transforming, and transcending the surface requires play with perceptive abilities not only of vision, but of touch, hearing, and the other senses as well. How do the interactions of sense with …