Digitality

The condition of being stored or transmitted as a sequence of discrete symbols from a finite set, most commonly this means binary data represented using electronic or electromagnetic signals. In a digital media process the physical properties of the input data, light and sounds waves, are converted into numbers (Lister, 15). Digitality has entered our everyday lives by means of satellite, cable, telephone, and packaged media (i.e. CDs, DVDs, MP3s, etc.).

Digitisation creates the conditions for inputting very high quantities of data, very fast access to that data and ver high rates of change of that data (Lister, 17)

Digitality is an incorporation of "bits". Being digital is the license to grow (Negroponte, 41). We are traveling the "information highway" and using digitalisation as gasoline. The bits are filtered, prepared, and delivered to you, perhaps to be printed in the home, perhap to be viewed men interactivel y with an electronic display (20). The digital world can grow and change in a more continuous and organic way than former analog system (43).

Lister, Martin. "New Media: A Critical Introduction". New York: Routledge, 2003.

Negroponte, Nicholas. "Being Digital". New York: Vintage, 1995.