Digital Materiality and the Emergence of an Evolutionary Science of the Artificial

Youngjin Yoo

80 citations0/0 files stored

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Cybernetics and Technology in Society Information Systems Theories and Implementation Digital Media and Philosophy

Abstract

Abstract An important consequence of the pervasive digitalization of artifacts is that artifacts become generative due to the unique materiality of digital technology. As result, digital artifacts evolve once created, often in ways that surprise even those who designed them. We are at the cusp of a new artificial world that is inundated with digital artifacts that are continuously evolving. As biology emerged as an evolutionary science of nature, we need a new discipline focusing on the evolution of digital artifacts. The chapter uses an empirical study as a way of sketching out what might emerge as an evolutionary science of the artificial. Through the example, the chapter demonstrates how the basic ideas of evolutionary biology can be used as a basis to study the evolution of digital artifacts.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 80 citations exist upstream.

References

1983An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change.2003Evolving to a New Dominant Logic for Marketing 1992The Duality of Technology: Rethinking the Concept of Technology in Organizations 2010Research Commentary —The New Organizing Logic of Digital Innovation: An Agenda for Information Systems Research 1995The role of product architecture in the manufacturing firm 1995The Mangle of Practice 200810 Sociomateriality: Challenging the Separation of Technology, Work and Organization 1995Perspective Making and Perspective Taking in Communities of Knowing

Cited by

2014Social media affordances: Enabling customer engagement 2020Complexity and Information Systems Research in the Emerging Digital World 2018A General framework for studying the evolution of the digital innovation ecosystem: The case of big data 2017Appraising the impact and role of platform models and Government as a Platform (GaaP) in UK Government public service reform: Towards a Platform Assessment Framework (PAF)2014Toward Generalizable Sociomaterial Inquiry: A Computational Approach for Zooming in and Out of Sociomaterial Routines1

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.