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Digital ShiftThe Cultural Logic of Punctuation$
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Digital Shift: The Cultural Logic of Punctuation

Jeff Scheible

Print publication date: 2015

Print ISBN-13: 9780816695737

Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: January 2016

DOI: 10.5749/minnesota/9780816695737.001.0001

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Connecting the Dots

Connecting the Dots

Periodizing the Digital

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(p.41) 1 Connecting the Dots
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Digital Shift
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Jeff Scheible

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University of Minnesota Press
DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816695737.003.0001

This chapter examines the intersection of the period and textual shift related to digital media: how it “periodizes” the digital, from its typographical redefinition as a dot in the 1980s internet protocol documents to a reading of Adaptation, in the context of dotcom anxieties to contemporary textual habits and visual culture.

Keywords:   Punctuation, Digital Media, Textuality, Film, Critical Theory, Semiotics, Popular Culture, Contemporary Art, Social Media

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