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Interpreting networks : hermeneutics, actor-network theory & new media / David J. Krieger; Andréa Belliger

Krieger, David J., 1948- ; Belliger, Andréa, 1970-

Bielefeld : Transcript-Verl., 2014

204 S. ; 23 cm

Englisch

Literaturverz. S. [193] - 204

Erscheint auch als: Interpreting networks / Krieger, David J. (Online-Ausgabe)

Erscheint auch als: Interpreting networks / Krieger, David J. (Online-Ausgabe)

3-8376-2811-6 ( : Pb. : EUR 29.99 (DE)); 978-3-8376-2811-1 (Pb. : EUR 29.99 (DE) (freier Pr.), EUR 30.90 (AT) (freier Pr.), sfr 40.10 (freier Pr.))

978-3-8394-2811-5 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2014445495

1051181704

14,N22

9783837628111

OCoLC: 884233330     

OCoLC: 882933234 (aus SWB)     

MR 5900  | MS 6950  | AP 15942      Ähnliche Literatur

HM741

*Informationsgesellschaft ; Neue Medien ; Social Media ; Actor-Network-Theory ; Philosophie ; Hermeneutik      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Social sciences -- Philosophy ; Actor-network theory ; Social networks ; Information society ; Information technology -- Social aspects

After postmodern critique has deconstructed, decentered, and displaced order and identity on all levels, we are faced with the Humpty Dumpty question of how to put the pieces back together again. This book brings together the seldom associated discourses of hermeneutics, actor-network theory, and new media in order to formulate a theory of a global network society. Hermeneutics re-opens the question of unity in a fragmented world. Actor-network theory reinterprets the construction of meaning as networking. New media studies show how networking is done. Networks arise, are maintained, and are transformed by communicative actions that are governed by network norms that make up a social operating system. The social operating system offers an alternative to the imperatives of algorithmic logic, functionality, and systemic closure that dominate present day solutions to problems of over-complexity in all areas. The world of meaning constructed by the social operating system is a mixed reality in which filters and layers replace the physical restraints of space and time as parameters of knowing and acting. Society and nature, humans and non-humans come together in a socio-sphere consisting of hybrid, heterogeneous actor-networks. This book proposes reinterpreting hermeneutics as networking and networking as guided by a social operating system whose norms are based on new media. There emerges a theory for a global network society described by different concepts than those typical of Western modernity.

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