Carson Smuts
Biographic Data
| ID | 9498891 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carson Smuts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carson |
| FAMILY NAME | Smuts |
| SIGNATURE | SMUTS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pretoria Pretoria South Africa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The myth of being modern
‘Digitization’ is a logical operation that deconstructs information and transforms it into digits, rendering it a logical construct. Digital operations are fast, infinitely replicable, objective, and absolute. But digitization is not without costs: the result of operationalizing information is that it becomes abstract—disconnected from its referent, and subject to processes that alter its representation without detection. Visions of modernity tha…
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The myth of being modern
‘Digitization’ is a logical operation that deconstructs information and transforms it into digits, rendering it a logical construct. Digital operations are fast, infinitely replicable, objective, and absolute. But digitization is not without costs: the result of operationalizing information is that it becomes abstract—disconnected from its referent, and subject to processes that alter its representation without detection. Visions of modernity tha…
Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Cybernetics and Technology in Society (1 work) · Data science (1 work) · Digital Education and Society (1 work) · Digital Media and Philosophy (1 work) · Digitization (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Operationalization (1 work)