Critical theory and the digital /
By: Berry, David M
Material type: BookSeries: Critical theory and contemporary society.Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.Description: ix, 260 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781441166395Subject(s): Information society | Information technology -- Social aspects | Digital media -- Social aspects | Critical theory | POLITICAL SCIENCE / General | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media StudiesDDC classification: 302.23/1 Online resources: Location MapItem type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 302.231 BE CR (Browse shelf) | Available | T0013940 |
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302.230973 ST CR The creation of the media : | 302.231 AI UN Uncharted : | 302.231 AL IR Irresistible : | 302.231 BE CR Critical theory and the digital / | 302.231 BE TW Between the public and private in mobile communication | 302.231 BR SH Sharing our lives online : | 302.231 BR SO Social media and public relations : |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- AcknowledgementsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: From Culture Industry to Computational IndustriesChapter 3: The Softwarization of SocietyChapter 4: Computational OntologiesChapter 5: The Reification of Everyday LifeChapter 6: Computational AestheticsChapter 7: Critical Praxis and the ComputationalChapter 8: Towards a Critical Theory of the DigitalBibliographyEndnotesIndex.
"This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume offers an original analysis of the role of the digital in today's society. It rearticulates critical theory by engaging it with the challenges of the digital revolution to show how the digital is changing the ways in which we lead our politics, societies, economies, media, and even private lives. In particular, the work examines how the enlightenment values embedded within the culture and materiality of digital technology can be used to explain the changes that are occurring across society.Critical Theory and the Digital draws from the critical concepts developed by critical theorists to demonstrate how the digital needs to be understood within a dialectic of potentially democratizing and totalizing technical power. By relating critical theory to aspects of a code-based digital world and the political economy that it leads to, the book introduces the importance of the digital code in the contemporary world to researchers in the field of politics, sociology, globalization and media studies"--