Digital culture: odyssey of technology and science

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  • Joana Coeli Ribeiro Garcia UFPB
  • Marckson Roberto Ferreira de Sousa UFPB

Keywords:

Digital culture. Memory of technology. Impact of technology on science.

Abstract

It remembers a history of technology, culminating in the modern digital culture, associating a Odyssey. Contextualizes the need for man to record their knowledge to share them with other generations, which began with the verb, soon, the stone, after, clay, wood, leather, paper and, finally, cyberspace. Discusses about advantages of technology in the digital culture and contradictions in the acceptance of electronic media, such as digitals limitations and the ease which is made plagiarism and copyright fraud. Presents digital literacy as an element for use of new technologies and believes that the metaphors library, cyberspace, cyberculture, digital culture and hypertext were the inspiration for the text, as well, as the Odyssey of Homer, which tells the journey of Ulisses, who travels and knows innumerous customs and storms. The coexistence with the changing serving for the challenges or what there is to be done.

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Published

2011-12-07

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COELI RIBEIRO GARCIA, J.; ROBERTO FERREIRA DE SOUSA, M. Digital culture: odyssey of technology and science. Em Questão, Porto Alegre, v. 17, n. 2, p. 77–90, 2011. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EmQuestao/article/view/22252. Acesso em: 24 jun. 2025.

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