Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Digital culture


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result of the debate was delete, then recreate as a redirect to Information Age. A real article about the topic can be written when it can properly sourced.  howch e  ng   {chat} 19:38, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Digital culture
Looks like a ad to me. Segv11 (talk/contribs) 07:41, 27 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Information Age or Digital Revolution or some such article. People are likely to type this in looking for some discussion of the cultural/societal impact of digital technology.  Blackcats 07:51, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect. -- Where? I'm not sure. But redirect. - Longhair 08:20, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
 * The choice appears to be a binary one. 0 - Information Age, 1 - Digital Revolution. Endomion 16:21, 27 December 2005 (UTC)


 * digital culture is still a valid term, worth defining — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ssmithjanis (talk • contribs)


 * there is a book titled "Digital Culture" by Charles Gere

- I posted the original (top part) of this definition. 'Digital Culture' does need defining as an independant conjunctive signifier. As for redirection, re.information age etc.? - I think references & links might be more helpful.

- Also, there are several "digital culture" programs at established universities. Perhaps is would be better to edit it rather than delete it.

Please leave it in

There are plenty of people who are starting to debate the coining of this term in contrast of meaning of that of "information age" and "digital revolution".

"Everyone uses the term digital culture, but no one defines it. It is one of those key terms that in its simplest usage merely designates a society saturated by telecommunications and information networks, electronic products, and computational systems based on binary data using electronic or electromagnetic signals. ... Whatever the intention of its meaning, the ubiquitous usage of the term digital culture has two important underlying assumptions: (1) community revolves around distributed communication; and (2) efforts to increase community take the form of new devices, systems, and technologies for abetting telecommunications." (Memory Bytes: History, Technology and Digital Culture. Edited by Lauren Rabinovitz and Abraham Geil. Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2004, p4-5.) Ibm66 21:55, 4 January 2006 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.