Believing in bits : digital media and the supernatural /
As technologies that work by computing numbers, digital media apparently epitomize what is considered scientific and rational. Yet, people experience the effects of digital devices and algorithms in their everyday life also through the lenses of magic and the supernatural. Algorithms, for instance,...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Amazon can read your mind: a media archaeology of the algorithmic imaginary / Simone Natale
- Information theory of the soul: spiritualism, technology, and science fiction / Anthony Enns
- The return of the sonic ghosts: phonographic revenants and digital reanimations, from paleospectography to hauntology / Simone Dotto
- I play, therefore I believe: religion and faith in digital games / Vincenzo Idone Cassone and Mattia Thibault
- Ritual magic and user generated deities on instagram / Rose Rowson
- Instant karma and internet karma: karmic memes and morality on social media / Beverley McGuire
- Disciples of the new digital religions: or, how to make your "fake" religion real / Ken Chitwood
- Plurality through imagination: the emergence of online Tulpa communities in the making of new identities / Christopher Laursen
- Augmented reality, virtual reality, and religion: past, present, and future / Joshua Mann
- Algorithm magic: Gilbert Simondon and techno-animism / Betti Marenko
- Afterword: religious and digital imaginaries in parallel lines / Carole Cusack, Massimo Leone and Jeffrey Sconce.