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Northern Michigan University

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2014

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Shifting Spaces In Digital Rhetoric: Ephemera In The Age Of Infinite Memory, Geoffrey Gimse Apr 2014

Shifting Spaces In Digital Rhetoric: Ephemera In The Age Of Infinite Memory, Geoffrey Gimse

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SHIFTING SPACES IN DIGITAL RHETORIC: EPHEMERA IN THE AGE OF INFINITE MEMORY

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Geoffrey Gimse

The storage capacity of digital systems has expanded at an incredible rate over the past decade. This new and growing space and the rapidly evolving technologies that surround it have become an intrinsic component of the digital creative process, and yet they remain relatively unexamined. The methods by which creative works are offloaded from the human mind, abstracted into data objects, and ultimately placed into an external storage medium are an excellent starting point for this type of critical analysis. This paper seeks to …