Abstract
The objective of the present paper is to contextualize the impact of the expansion of digital culture in the on-going discussions about the relations between sustainability and information technology. In order to relate the development of a global digital communication web, its effects on cultural processes and the issues of ecosystem and human sustainability that humanity is facing, I will relate and elaborate on three aspects: 1) A Batesonean perspective on sustainability 2) The recent evolution of the technosphere, and 3) Yuri Lotman's notion of Semiosphere and his semiotic theory of culture. This path will lead me to delineate some of the eco-ethical dimensions implied in the development of pervasive digital-interactive-immersive-representational technologies.
Highlights
In the present work I will overlap two clear and well acknowledged trends that have developed in the last half a century in globalized contemporary society: The advent of what we can denominate “digital culture”, and The collective awareness of the so-called “ecological crisis”, and the related notion of sustainability.The objective of this exposition is to contextualize the impact of the expansion of digital culture in the on-going discussions about the relations between sustainability and information technology
Until we find ourselves in the present technospheric configuration of connectivity, pervasiveness and synchronicity in which new technologies have given rise to what we call “digital culture”, due merely to an extension of the semiosphere’s substrate, i.e. the technosphere – and both its synchronic and diachronic reach – allowed by the advent of digital technology
The digital revolution has set in motion an irreversible development of a huge technosphere which by the principle that “technology brings more technology” should be expected to continue a rapid evolution and expansion around the whole planet with increase in connectivity, pervasiveness and “immersiveness”
Summary
In the present work I will overlap two clear and well acknowledged trends that have developed in the last half a century in globalized contemporary society:. The advent of what we can denominate “digital culture”, and The collective awareness of the so-called “ecological crisis”, and the related notion of sustainability The objective of this exposition is to contextualize the impact of the expansion of digital culture in the on-going discussions about the relations between sustainability and information technology. I will consider in particular the technological developments that are related to explicit multimodal representations supported by interactive and immersive digital technologies, trying to keep in focus the fate and the ecology of the “content” that can be mediated through such technological set-ups In this trend we can include established, as well as emerging, technological fields or paradigms such as ubiquitous and pervasive computing, ambient intelligence, wearable computing, virtual and augmented reality, affective computing, to name a few.
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