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title: Digital Culture
description: Digital culture investigates how digital technologies, software, and platforms transform human communication, identity, and social practices. Learners will analyze the cultural impact of algorithms, virtual spaces, and digital media on contemporary society.
category: humanities
subcategory: cultural-studies
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/digital-culture
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# Digital Culture

Digital culture investigates how digital technologies, software, and platforms transform human communication, identity, and social practices. Learners will analyze the cultural impact of algorithms, virtual spaces, and digital media on contemporary society.

## Available Resources

1 Books • 4 Websites

## Websites

### 1. Rhizome

A New York nonprofit and affiliate in residence at the New Museum that commissions, exhibits, and preserves born-digital art. Its Net Art Anthology and ArtBase archive let you trace how internet art and network culture developed since the 1990s.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://rhizome.org/

**Tags:** net-art, digital-preservation, internet-culture, new-media-art

### 2. Digital Culture Network

Arts Council England's free digital support programme for creative and cultural organisations, run by specialist Tech Champions. It offers one-to-one sessions, monthly webinars, and a knowledge hub covering websites, social media, analytics, accessibility, and digital content.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://digitalculturenetwork.org.uk/

**Tags:** arts-sector, digital-skills, cultural-organisations, digital-strategy

### 3. spreadablemedia.org

Spreadable Media is a research hub that explores how content circulates in social and digital networks. It offers essays, case studies, and practical frameworks on spreadability, participatory culture, and audience engagement.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://spreadablemedia.org

**Tags:** websites, humanities-social-sciences, cultural-studies

### 4. aoir.org

AOIR.org is the website for the Association of Internet Researchers, a professional community focused on the study of digital communication and internet research methods. It offers information about membership and events, along with ethics guidelines, publications, and resources for conducting ethical internet research.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://aoir.org

**Tags:** websites, humanities-social-sciences, communication-studies

## Podcasts

### 1. Internet History Podcast

**Author:** Brian McCullough

Long-form interviews and narrative episodes tracing the commercial internet from Netscape's 1994 launch through the iPad, told by the people who built it. Listeners come away with a chronological grasp of how the web industry formed.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://art19.com/shows/internet-history-podcast

**Tags:** internet-history, web, technology-history, interviews, dot-com

## Books

### 1. The Digital Condition

**Author:** Felix Stalder

Stalder argues that three forces define contemporary culture: referentiality, communality, and algorithmicity. Readers gain a theoretical vocabulary for analysing how remix practice, networked communities, and automated decision-making reshape meaning-making beyond the mass-media era.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1509519602?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, cultural-studies

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