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globital

globital adjective: both global and digital; relating to the use of computer technology by the international masses, especially with regard to the recording of human memories.

Adjective

globital (not comparable)

  1. Both global and digital; relating to the use of computer technology by the international masses, especially with regard to the recording of human memories.
    • […] is developing a globital memory field that cuts across conventionally understood binaries of the communicative versus the cultural, the individual versus the social, or the national versus the transnational.2013, Ellen Rutten, Julie Fedor, Vera Zvereva, Memory, Conflict and New Media, page 23
    • In conditions of unlimited global-digital 'web-memory' (labelled by one critic a 'globital age'), social remembering and forgetting have become functions of algorithm-based search technologies that mine data from users […]2018, Guy Beiner, Forgetful Remembrance, page 625

Origin of globital

Blend of global + digital, coined by Anna Reading, who originally spelled it globytal, influenced by byte.

Questions about globital

What does globital mean?
Globital means both global and digital; relating to the use of computer technology by the international masses, especially with regard to the recording of human memories.
What part of speech is globital?
Globital is an adjective.

Words near globital in the dictionary

  1. globigerinids
  2. globin
  3. globing
  4. globins
  5. Globish
  6. globital
  7. globocop
  8. globocops
  9. globocracy
  10. globocrat
  11. globocratic

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