People rely too much on digitization without realizing the consequences of losing physical presence, so digitization should be used for more than storage.
I know, I changed my thesis yet again towards last minute to more general. I wasn’t sure how to word what I wanted to say. Somewhere in my paper I wanted to argue that people should develop pictures, edit documents by hand, and rely less on digitization.
Supporting claims: [in progress, publishing now for people to see and comment]
1) Art is different when it is digital. The process of making art has changed now that it can be digital, and the medium of art matters a lot.
2) There’s a good source analyzing digitization that I still have to go through. But so far it’s talking about how digitization is hermetic and focuses all about form. It “represents but does not present”. Alone, digitization is just a representation of form and is nothing, but it is our interactions with it that make it alive.
I don’t know whether it was because I read the former post first and then this, but both contents combined, I was able to get a more vivid sense of how you wanted your research to be. Wording and phrasing is definitely difficult but I liked the idea when you described you wanted to argue how people should continue practicing a more traditional (less digitized) way of creating or crafting. I think to support this you could explore the benefits of handwritten letters, photo printing, and hand crafted art works. Personally, I think its good to have in both digitized and physical form. But I definitely think letters, books, photos in physical form, whether hand crafted or not have a more sense of intimacy, something that jpg. version in a computer screen can never imitate.
I realized that a major problem I thought of was how to create such a definitive line between storage and tool. As I understand it, so much of our college content is posted online and digitized but it is definitely to our benefit. Without the computer, we would have exceedingly great difficulty accessing so many things related to our academia. That is storage, just as are our books and textbook snippet previews. That is would be something that needs to be addressed in your introduction, or else I’d feel too confused to continue reading.
However, I really like your take on the topic, going for more of an arts perspective on the matter of digitization. I hope the sources are plentiful!