Publication Date
2014
Description
The new knowledge environments of the digital age are oen described as places where we are all closely read, with our buying habits, location, and identities available to advertisers, online merchants, the government, and others through our use of the Internet. This is represented as a loss of privacy in which these entities learn about our activities and desires, using means that were unavailable in the pre-digital era. This article argues that the reciprocal nature of digital networks means 1) that the privacy issues that we face online are not radically different from those of the pre-Internet era, and 2) that we need to reconceive of close reading as an activity of which both humans and computer algorithms are capable.
Journal
Scholarly and Research Communication
Volume
5
Issue
2
Department
Comparative Humanities
Link to Published Version
http://src-online.ca/index.php/src/article/viewFile/152/300
Recommended Citation
Hunter, John. "“All Data is Credit Data,” or, On Close Reading as a Reciprocal Process in Digital Knowledge Environments." Scholarly and Research Communication (2014) .
Included in
Digital Humanities Commons, Other Film and Media Studies Commons, Reading and Language Commons