Digital Objects, Digital Subjects.
This book explores activism, research and critique in the age of digital subjects and objects and Big Data capitalism after a digital turn said to have radically transformed our political futures. Optimists assert that the 'digital' promises: new forms of community and ways of knowing and...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
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| Language: | English |
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London :
University of Westminster Press,
2019.
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| Series: | Online access: OAPEN DOAB Directory of Open Access Books.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | This book explores activism, research and critique in the age of digital subjects and objects and Big Data capitalism after a digital turn said to have radically transformed our political futures. Optimists assert that the 'digital' promises: new forms of community and ways of knowing and sensing, innovation, participatory culture, networked activism, and distributed democracy. Pessimists argue that digital technologies have extended domination via new forms of control, networked authoritarianism and exploitation, dehumanization and the surveillance society. Leading international scholars present varied interdisciplinary assessments of such claims--in theory and via dialogue--and of the digital's impact on society, the potentials, pitfalls, limits and ideologies, of digital activism. They reflect on whether computational social science, digital humanities and ubiquitous datafication lead to digital positivism that threatens critical research or lead to new horizons in theory and society. |
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| Item Description: | OAPEN Library |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9781912656080 1912656086 9781912656097 1912656094 9781912656103 1912656108 9781912656202 1912656205 |
