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“Digitization” considers its titular concept within the fields of book history and media studies, as well as more speculative forms of digitization in popular science and science fiction.

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  1. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Scott Selisker

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  1. Department of English and American Studies, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

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Selisker, S. (2019). Digitization. In: Paul, H. (eds) Critical Terms in Futures Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28987-4_15

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