Viewing patterns: Information and media infrastructures - Editors' introduction
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DOI: 10.5210/fm.v22i1.7262
Abstract: In this introduction to a special edited issue of First Monday on viewing patterns, we argue that information, iteration and incarnation are useful paths to understanding emergent media infrastructures. Here we explain the connection of… read more here.
Keywords: introduction; viewing patterns; media infrastructures; patterns information ... See more keywords
Patterns, Information, and Causation
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DOI: 10.5840/jphil20171141142
Abstract: This paper articulates an account of causation as a collection of information-theoretic relationships between patterns instantiated in the causal nexus. I draw on Dennett’s account of real patterns to characterize potential causal relata as patterns… read more here.
Keywords: causation; causal relata; causal; patterns information ... See more keywords