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In the 1990s, a single term came to stand for the whole range of new technologies, new expressive and communicative possibilities, new forms of community and sociality that were emerging around computers and Internet. The term was “digital.” It received its official seal of approval, so to speak, in 1996 when in the director of MIT Media Lab Nicholas Negroponte collected his Wired columns into the book that he named Being Digital. Many years later, the term “digital” still dominates both popular and academic understanding of what new media is about.
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