ISBN:
9780415540001
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (310 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society
Parallel Title:
Print version Disorder and the Disinformation Society : The Social Dynamics of Information, Networks and Software
DDC:
303.48/33
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book is the first general social analysis that seriously considers the daily experience of information disruption and software failure within contemporary Western society. Through an investigation of informationalism, defined as a contemporary form of capitalism, it describes the social processes producing informational disorder. While most social theory sees disorder as secondary, pathological or uninteresting, this book takes disordering processes as central to social life. The book engages with theories of information society which privilege information order, offering a strong counter
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: Information Society and Disorder; 1 Disorder and Social Theory; 2 Robustness and Order in Theories of the Information Society; 3 Computers, Systems, Instability and Failure; 4 Networks, Disorder, Unpredictability; 5 Disorders of Information; 6 Capitalism and Disinformation; 7 Software Development; 8 Software Disorder and Everyday Life; 9 Finance, Crisis and Informationalism; 10 Disorders of the Commons, Peer-to-Peer; 11 Information-Disorder in Academia; 12 Communication Technology and the Origins of Global Justice Movements
Description / Table of Contents:
Conclusion: Disinformation SocietyBibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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