Abstract

MORENO, José Carlos. From Analog to Digital: How digitization affects the production, distribution and consumption of information, knowledge and culture in the network society. OBS* [online]. 2013, vol.7, n.4, pp.113-129. ISSN 1646-5954.

The network society brought about numerous changes to the way social actors produce, distribute and consume information, knowledge and culture. One of those changes is the basic shift in the information coding system, which was mostly analog and now is fundamentally digital. In this article we will argue that change from analog to digital codification is the technological ground on which social appropriation of communication and information technologies takes place. We will start by looking at the characteristics of the digital codification as opposed to the analog codification; then we will analyze if digital codification affects the way to produce, distribute and consume information; and finally we will conclude by assessing if and how that changes the social conditions under which such production, distribution and consumption occurs.

Keywords : digital; digital information; digital media.

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