A influência dos bancos de dados na cultura digital

Abstract

This work is intended to analyze databases and its influence among digital culture. We will show that database usage and database logic are becoming more common than ever in this culture and it is implicit to users. Once we realize this predominance, we ask if database usage can affect the way we understand the world, making this interaction more binary, dichotomous, ordered and more objective, like database logics would do with its formal structures of cataloging and data availability. To answer this question we will analyze database designs, from data modeling to creation and use (Date). Thus, we show how the ideas of a project, initially informal, become formal though the project designer's choices and binary data structure rules, ending up in a product released for use (Setzer). After that, we will see how all of this formal mode including main database features - and digital technology features - come from the military environment of power and control (Gere), also based on quantifier (Crosby) and visual models (Crary) transferred to digital model. Finally, we wrote a case study based on what we have discussed, mainly focused on database logic (Manovich), confirming its presence on all ways, even storing untouchable things, like feelings