Networks and Layers: Technocultural Encodings of the World Wide Web
Author(s) -
Ganaele Langlois
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
canadian journal of communication
Language(s) - French
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.343
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1499-6642
pISSN - 0705-3657
DOI - 10.22230/cjc.2005v30n4a1636
Subject(s) - focus (optics) , standardization , computer science , world wide web , web standards , automation , representation (politics) , software , web service , engineering , political science , mechanical engineering , physics , politics , law , optics , programming language , operating system
This paper calls for a cultural analysis of the World Wide Web through a focus on the technical layers that shape the Web as a medium. Web technologies need to be acknowledged as not only shaped by social processes, but also deployed, through standardization and automation, as agents that render representation possible by following specific technocultural logics. Thus, the focus is on the relationship between hardware, software, and culture through an analysis of the layers of encoding that translate data into discourse, and vice versa. Resume : Cet article appelle au developpement d’une analyse culturelle du Web axee sur les couches technologiques qui transforment le Web en media. Les technologies Web ne doivent pas seulement etre reconnues comme etant faconnees par des processus sociaux, mais aussi comme etant deployees, au travers de phenomenes de standardisation et d’automatisation, comme agents qui rendent toute representation possible en suivant des logiques technoculturelles specifiques. Ainsi, la priorite est donnee aux relations entre le materiel informatique, les logiciels et les processus culturels au travers d’une analyse des couches de codage qui traduisent les donnees informatiques en discours, et vice-versa.
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