ISBN:
9780816667987
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (210 p.))
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Electronic mediations 28
Series Statement:
EBL-Schweitzer
Series Statement:
Electronic mediations
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Raley, Rita Tactical media
DDC:
302.231
Keywords:
Mass media
;
Computer simulation
;
Digital media
;
Mass media ; Simulation methods
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Neue Medien
;
Gesellschaft
;
Neue Medien
;
Politik
Abstract:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Tactical Media as Virtuosic Performance; 1. Border Hacks: Electronic Civil Disobedience and the Politics of Immigration; 2. Virtual War: Information Visualization and Persuasive Gaming; 3. Speculative Capital: Black Shoals and the Visualizing of Finance; Notes; Index
Abstract:
Tactical media describes interventionist media art practices that engage and critique the dominant political and economic order. Rather than taking to the streets and staging spectacular protests, the practitioners of tactical media engage in an aesthetic politics of disruption, intervention, and education. From They Rule, an interactive map of the myriad connections between the world's corporate and political elite created by Josh On and Futurefarmers, to Black Shoals, a financial market visualization that is intended to be both aesthetically and politically disruptive, they embrace a broad r
Note:
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https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=445626
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