Book Burning In The Digital Age

The digital age has provided us with new and innovative ways to transform data into information (Lubin 2013) we can either use this to our advantage or to a disadvantage, in the following ways. Archiving; we can save the information we create and or acquire by means of storage devices, in the past, historic events such as the African slave trade through the colonisation of Africa and World War Two, caused nations of people to lose their history and cultural heritage and identity. Before the advent of personal computers and storage devices, information was raw physical and unprocessed but fast-forward to the twenty-first century and all information is stored electronically, on external storage devices and recently on clouds or air drives, this process is marred by digital hoarding.

Book burning also known as biblioclasm is the practice of the obliteration of written information, as well as other forms of media which has also been burned or shredded. This practice is generally motivated by moral, religious, or social, political dissent to the material. In some cases, the works destroyed are

Before globalisation and colonisation every nation had a cultural identity which was different from the next, culture is central to the way we view, experience and engage with all facets of our lives and environment around us; “thus, even our definitions of culture are shaped by the historical, social, political and cultural contexts we are exposed to” while technology shaped by algorithms, logarithms shapes and measurements, technology is an interrupted process and a language the entire world seems to understand while culture has been interrupted by technology itself, it is easier to move forward with the world on a technological level than it is to do so on a multi - cultural level. This is due to the information that is available to us, this information dictates and social trends we follow and the technological advances we