globital

English

Etymology

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

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.
   • 2013, Ellen Rutten, Julie Fedor, Vera Zvereva, Memory, Conflict and New Media, page 23:

     […] 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.

   • 2018, Guy Beiner, Forgetful Remembrance, page 625:

     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 […]