Meanings
- not comparableBoth 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 231 more example
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
Blend of global + digital, coined by Anna Reading, who originally spelled it globytal, influenced by byte.
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