Sinclair, Christine and Hayes, Sarah L (2019). Between the Post and the Com-Post:Examining the Postdigital ‘Work’ of a Prefix. Postdigital Science and Education, 1 , 119–131.
Abstract
In examining the work of the prefix ‘post’, we aim to contribute to the current postdigital dialogue. Our paper does not provide a rationale for the use of ‘postdigital’ in the title of this journal: that has been thoroughly explored elsewhere. We want instead to consider the work the prefix might do. We look at ‘post’, as it appears to ‘act’ in the terms of ‘postmodernism’ and ‘posthumanism’, suggesting that modernism and humanism are in need of questioning and reworking. We also examine what gets ‘post-ed’, or sometimes ‘com-posted’. (Com- is another interesting prefix, meaning ‘with’.) We then consider how these inquiries inform our understanding of a ‘postdigital reality’ that humans now inhabit. We understand this as a space of learning, struggle, and hope, where ‘old’ and ‘new’ media are now ‘cohabiting artefacts’ that enmesh with the economy, politics and culture. In entering this postdigital age, there really is no turning back from a convergence of the traditional and the digital. However, this is not simply a debate about technological and non-technological media. The postdigital throws up new challenges and possibilities across all aspects of social life. We believe this opens up new avenues too, for considering ways that discourse (language-in-use) shapes how we experience the postdigital.
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-018-0017-4 |
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Divisions: | Non-College Departments |
Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2018. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
Publication ISSN: | 2524-4868 |
Last Modified: | 08 Oct 2024 07:17 |
Date Deposited: | 07 Jan 2019 10:14 |
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Published Date: | 2019-04-15 |
Published Online Date: | 2018-11-26 |
Accepted Date: | 2018-11-01 |
Authors: |
Sinclair, Christine
Hayes, Sarah L ( 0000-0001-8633-0155) |