History and Digital Cultures
Chapter
Author(s) / editor(s):
Grant Bollmer
Year: 2025
Abstract:
This chapter briefly discusses how history is often a problem for the study of digital media and culture. Digital technologies are too often considered to be ‘new,’ producing a break with past media and instituting a range of social relations and creative forms that are otherwise unprecedented. This chapter describes why this attitude towards history is misguided—as it leads to the false presumption that either everything is new or, conversely, nothing is new—and notes how historicizing digital media is one way of intervening into the politics of digital cultures.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111316857-015
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