The Anthology in Digital Culture: Forms and Affordances

The anthology has been a significant editorial framework for narratives, adapting to changing technologies. It has become a metaphor for understanding stories and organizing human thoughts. This book explores how anthologization intersects with data-driven content classification and sorting in streaming platform environments, proposing to expand the critical keywords for the study of culture, society, and data.

Format: Hardback
Length: 228 pages
Publication date: 19 January 2024
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

The anthology has played a significant role in the development, preservation, and retrieval of narratives across various media platforms, from paper-based media to machine-generated content, spanning discontinued analog and digital technologies. Over time, anthologies have become integral to the "metaphors we live by" (Lakoff and Johnson 2008), serving as figurative lenses through which we read, navigate, interpret stories, and organize human thoughts for a deeper understanding. This book explores the impact of anthologization on streaming platform environments, examining how traditional editorial practices intersect with data-driven content classification and sorting in both pre- and post-digital cultures. The author proposes to incorporate "anthology" into the vocabulary of digital culture to encompass new curatorial and algorithmic processes of content filtering, aiming to expand the critical keywords for the study of culture, society, and data.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789463724265