Digitalization: contextual and code transformations

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This study concerns with the transformations made by the digital rise in the two communication elements known as context and code. The digital presence, especially after the widespread of the Internet led to the fall of the previous models and visions after the emergence of electronic literature and its connection to the Internet.
This study used more than one trans-methodical mechanisms of the known methods, including mechanisms of analysis, comparison, description and historical tracing, while looking at a number of digital texts published on the network.
The study concluded number of results, including the following: inconsistency between the fragmented, unstable and rapidly evolving concepts of digital age and the concepts of context and code before the advent of digital literature and thought where the language of the texts was confined to the written form, which is no longer the case in the digital network since the language in its familiar written mode does not constitute more than twenty percent of the digital texts, with the presence of new competing elements and components.

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