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Digital Epistemology: An Introduction

Towards a Digital Epistemology

The notion of digital epistemology as applied in this volume could in some of its applications be understood as an attempt to do digital humanities without being committed to digital tools and objects. This, however, is not a programmatic stance, rather a reminder that the epistemological consequences of digitization can be traced also in texts and artwork that are not "about" digital objects; and without using digital tools to perform the analysis. In this introduction, Cecilia Lindhé (Digital Humanities Quarterly, 7(1).

Digital Libraries for Open Knowledge

Springer eBooks, 2018

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Digital nominalism. Notes on the ethics of information society in view of the ontology of the digital

The commodification of code demands two preconditions: a belief if the existence of code and a system of ownership for the code. An examination of these preconditions is helpful for resisting the further widening of digital divides. The ontological belief in the relatively independent existence of code is dependent on our understanding of what the “digital” is. Here it is claimed that the digital is not a natural kind, but a concept that is relative to our practices of interpretation. An interpretative system that sees code as something that can or should always be owned implies an increase of social control and threatens vital processes of knowledge creation that are necessary for an open and egalitarian information society. The ontological belief in “digital code” thus provides the backdrop for an ethical view of the information society. Consequently, if we see digital code as an interpretative notion (in the nominalist way), the ethical questions appear in a different light.

Epistemic Processes

Epistemic Processes, 2018

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Digitalization Cases Vol. 2

Management for Professionals, 2021

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The Importance of Being Digital

The Humanities in the Digital: Beyond Critical Digital Humanities

In this chapter, I present the post-authentic framework, a theoretical framework for knowledge creation in the digital, and I introduce two concepts central to the framework, symbiosis and mutualism. In light of the considerations reasoned in Chap. 1, I discuss and question the relevance of notions of authenticity and completeness in relation to digital objects. I take the example of a digital cultural heritage object to highlight how ideas of authenticity and completeness have consequences not only for the production of digital heritage and with respect to heritage values and practices but, more widely, for our understanding of digital objects and knowledge production in a digital society. Finally, I rework such notions using the formation of the digital heritage collection ChroniclItaly 3.0 as an example of how the post-authentic framework can guide the fluid interactions between human and technological processes that are required in the contemporary context of digital knowledge c...