Próximo workshop de la sección Digital Culture and Communication de ECREA.
Digital Culture and Communication
The Digital Culture and Communication Section in ECREA will be hosting the next workshop on «Standards, Disruptions and Values in Digital Culture and Communication» at the University of Salzburg, 26-28 November, 2015. Please submit abstracts by May 11, 2015.
Call for Papers
Technical and social standards are consistent, formal and informal norms, values or conventions of doing, operating, producing, and/or performing something. As the basis of technical transmission, standards in media allow transferability and interoperability, reduce complexity, and facilitate communication across formats, platforms and boundaries. Their relevance and power become evident with regard to co-existing or competing standards that result in disruptions and interferences, as expressed in the ‘videotape format war’ of the late 1970s or in the ongoing incompatibilities between Apple and Microsoft. But standardisation can also limit diversification and create lock-ins, which restrict future choices and prevent more radical changes. In society, standards generate common understandings and shared…
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