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Su Ballard

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Information, Noise And Et Al, Su Ballard Dec 2012

Information, Noise And Et Al, Su Ballard

Su Ballard

At their most simplistic, there are two means for shifting information around - analogue and digital. Analogue movement depends on analogy to perform computations; it is continuous and the relationships between numbers are keyed as a continuous ordinal set. The digital set is discrete; moving one finger at a time results in a one-to-one correspondence. Nevertheless, analogue and digital are like the two companions in Serres' tale. Each suffers the relationship of noise to information as internal rupture and external interference. In their examination of historical constructions of information, Hobart and Schiffman locate the noise of the analogue within its …


Information, Noise, Et Al., Susan Ballard Dec 2012

Information, Noise, Et Al., Susan Ballard

Su Ballard

Divided into three sections, Error brings together established critics and emerging voices to offer a significant contribution to the field of new media studies. In the first section," Hack," contributors explore the ways in which errors, glitches, and failure provide opportunities ...