| Título: | Networks and Layers: Technocultural Encodings of the World Wide Web |
| Autores: | Langlois, Ganaele M; Communication and Culture - York University |
| Fecha: | 2006-01-10 |
| Publicador: | Canadian Journal of Comumunication |
| Fuente: |
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| Tipo: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/article research-article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion |
| Tema: | New Media; World Wide Web; Medium Theory; Actor-network theory; Cultural Analysis |
| Descripción: | Abstract: This paper calls for a cultural analysis of the World Wide Web through a focus on the technical layers that shape the Web as a medium. Web technologies need to be acknowledged as not only shaped by social processes, but also deployed, through standardization and automation, as agents that render representation possible by following specific technocultural logics. Thus, the focus is on the relationship between hardware, software, and culture through an analysis of the layers of encoding that translate data into discourse, and vice versa. Résumé : Cet article appelle au développement d’une analyse culturelle du Web axée sur les couches technologiques qui transforment le Web en média. Les technologies Web ne doivent pas seulement être reconnues comme étant façonnées par des processus sociaux, mais aussi comme étant déployées, au travers de phénomènes de standardisation et d’automatisation, comme agents qui rendent toute représentation possible en suivant des logiques technoculturelles spécifiques. Ainsi, la priorité est donnée aux relations entre le matériel informatique, les logiciels et les processus culturels au travers d’une analyse des couches de codage qui traduisent les données informatiques en discours, et vice-versa. |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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