Evan Bryce Riddle

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Database and Narrative

The Lev Manovich writing on “Database as Symbolic Form” attempts to answer the question of ‘what is a database?’ It looks at etymology of the term as well as its current uses and associations, and looks at the differences bettwen database and narrative. The reading suggests that a database is a cluster of singular items and is unaffected by narrative.…

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