ISBN:
9781498589871
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 230 Seiten)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als The dialectic of digital culture
DDC:
302.231
Keywords:
Digital media-Social aspects..
;
Digital communications-Social aspects
;
Electronic books
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Kulturwandel
Abstract:
This edited collection analyzes dialectically the role of digital technology in contemporary society. The contributors identify the cultural logics and oppressive forces reproduced in the digital era and challenge celebratory readings of digital technology.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I: Power in the Digital Era -- Chapter One: Digital Hegemony -- Chapter Two: Dialectics of Degrading Datafication -- Chapter Three: Government vs. Corporate Surveillance -- II: Politics in the Digital Era -- Chapter Four: Media Spectacle, Digital Culture, and the Trump Presidency -- Chapter Five: The (Digital) Future is Female -- Chapter Six: Queering the Straight World? -- III: Culture in the Digital Era -- Chapter Seven: On the Cultural Power of the "Marianas Web" Meme -- Chapter Eight: Photography, Bibliography, Digitality, Paradox -- Chapter Nine: The New Old -- IV: Being Human in the Digital Era -- Chapter Ten: Digitized Music and the Aesthetic Experience of Difference -- Chapter Eleven: Keeping Commerce Human -- Chapter Twelve: From the Wild West to Silicon Valley -- Conclusion -- Index -- About the Contributors.
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