Note 2: From a “trace” to the “event”
A current trivial discourse correctly underlines the overproduction of “traces” as a by-product of the deployment of digital technologies and networks. If this is a general correct statement, what remains broadly uninvestigated is the ontological and epistemological relation existing between a “trace” and the “event” that generates the trace. We need a more solid investigation (even in term of thermodynamics of a trace as a remnant of an event) about the meaning of a digital trace in the context of a data intensive age (Cosimo Accoto, 2013)
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