The Digitized Imagination: Encounters with the Virtual World

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The work explores the complex and profound implications of digital technology for a stunning variety of spaces, ranging from science and cinema to citizenship and bazaars. It maps the multiple ways in which the 'new' media rewrites the 'old', and the dilemmas and issues that they pitch - questioning, in turn, received notions of knowledge, legality, ethics, privacy, identity and community. The book argues that the old and the new media are neither radically different nor the same: while the mutability of a narrative, whether on the printed page or on a digitally recorded disk remains, there are intrinsic differences between print and digital print. Cover The Digitized Imagination Copyright Contents List of Figure and Photographs Acknowledgements Introduction 1 A Brief History of the Internet from the 15th to the 18th Century 2 The Cut and Thrust of Eisenstein’s Montage 3 Academics v. the Rest: Some Questions around the Issue of Plagiarism 4 Inventive Science: The Question of Ethics 5 Whose DNA Is It, Anyway? Expanding DNA Databanks Raise Human Rights Concerns 6 ‘Thank You for Saving Hindus’: Refl ections on Hindu Hatred in the Digital Age 7 The New Politics of the New Media 8 Bebo-ing the South Seas: From Tin Cans to the Internet in the Pacific 9 Weaving an India with Mailing Lists 10 Digital Dreams 11 Architecture in the Era of Digital Imagination 12 Technological Ruins: A Short Essay 13 Nehru Place, or Why the Whole is More than the Sum of its Parts 14 End of Technological Innocence 15 ‘Domasticating’ Technology About the Editor Notes on Contributors Index