Digital technology, digital culture and the metric/nonmetric distinction

Publication date: August 2019Source: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 145Author(s): Jean-Sébastien GuyAbstractDigital culture is identified as both a component of the current digital transformation of society and an epistemological obstacle toward the sociological analysis of the same phenomenon. Two theoretical distinctions are bought in to remove this obstacle: medium/form and metric/nonmetric. Digital culture is then analysed as a nonmetric form specifically and criticized for leaving aside other social forms, most notably metric forms such as the flows of information connected with the operations of algorithms for instance.

Source: Technological Forecasting and Social Change - May 16, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research