Digital Keywords gathers pointed, provocative short essays on more than two dozen keywords by leading and rising digital media scholars from the areas of anthropology, digital humanities, history, political science, philosophy, religious studies, rhetoric, science and technology studies, and sociology. Digital Keywords examines and critiques the rich lexicon animating the emerging field of digital studies.

Table of Contents

• About the Author
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction - Benjamin Peters
• 1 Activism - Guobin Yang
• 2 Algorithm - Tarleton Gillespie
• 3 Analog - Jonathan Sterne
• 4 Archive - Katherine D. Harris
• 5 Cloud - John Durham Peters
• 6 Community - Rosemary Avance
• 7 Culture - Ted Striphas
• 8 Democracy - Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
• 9 Digital - Benjamin Peters
• 10 Event - Julia Sonnevend
• 11 Flow - Sandra Braman
• 12 Forum - Hope Forsyth
• 13 Gaming - Saugata Bhaduri
• 14 Geek - Christina Dunbar-Hester
• 15 Hacker - Gabriella Coleman
• 16 Information - Bernard Geoghegan
• 17 Internet - Thomas Streeter
• 18 Meme - Limor Shifman
• 19 Memory - Steven Schrag
• 20 Mirror - Adam Fish
• 21 Participation - Christopher Kelty
• 22 Personalization - Stephanie Ricker Schulte
• 23 Prototype - Fred Turner
• 24 Sharing - Nicholas A. John
• 25 Surrogate - Jeffrey Drouin
• Appendix: Over Two Hundred Digital Keywords
• About the Contributors