Living in Digital Worlds

Introduction

 

 

 

 

 

Digital is a term which is over-used, abused and in some senses becoming meaningless. Digital is everywhere and nowhere, indistinguishable from other aspects of the material world and the way we live in it – at least for most people in modern developed societies.

This book results from a five-year research programme called The Creative Exchange (CX), which focused its attention on the ‘digital public space’. Initially this was defined as:

Where anyone, anywhere, anytime can access, explore and create with digital content.

The concept of digital public space was originally developed by the BBC and taken up as a topic for investigation by the Creative Exchange, particularly with regard to the relationship of the creative ...