Digital Keywords: A Vocabulary of Information Society and Culture

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In the age of search, keywords increasingly organize research, teaching, and even thought itself. Inspired by Raymond Williams's 1976 classic Keywords, the timely collection Digital Keywords gathers pointed, provocative short essays on more than two dozen keywords by leading and rising digital media scholars from the areas of anthropology, digital

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"[A] new and revolutionary publication... Digital Keywords serves as an in-depth interrogation of the meaning and development of digitised language... Those wishing to gain a deeper understanding of the modern, digital world we all inhabit would be well advised to begin by taking a look at this book. Just as Keywords made its way firmly onto reference shelves in the 1970s, so too will Digital Keywords today."--Jade Fell, Engineering and Technology "This a good springboard to spark a discussion about the cultural and social significance of a select set of words in the context of a computer-mediated society and culture."--Choice

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Benjamin Peters is assistant professor of communication at the University of Tulsa and affiliated faculty at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.