Critical, Digital and Social Media Studies – serie
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15 produkter
Spectacle 2.0
Reading Debord in the Context of Digital Capitalism
Av Marco Briziarelli, Emiliana Armano
Häftad, 2017
368 kr
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“Necessary reading for scholars interested in theorising the spectacle's relation to the labour theory of value, commodity fetishism and subjectivity under post-Fordism.” - https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/1015/1176Spectacle 2.0 recasts Debord's theory of spectacle within the …
Social Capital Online
Alienation and Accumulation
Häftad, 2018
338 kr
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What is ‘social capital’? The enormous positivity surrounding it conceals the instrumental economic rationality underpinning the notion as corporations silently sell consumer data for profit. Status chasing is just one aspect of a process of transforming qualitative aspects of social interactions …
Bubbles and Machines
Gender, Information and Financial Crises
Av Micky Lee
Häftad, 2019
323 kr
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Are financial crises embedded in IT? Can gender studies offer insights into financial reporting? Feminist theories and Science and Technology Studies (STS) can enrich a critique of financial crises in capitalism as the author argues their critical, political economic approaches to communication can …
Critical Theory and Authoritarian Populism
Inbunden, 2018
1345 kr
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After President Trump’s election, BREXIT and the widespread rise of far-Right political parties, much public discussion has intensely focused on populism and authoritarianism. In the middle of the twentieth century, members of the early Frankfurt School prolifically studied and theorized fascism …
Propaganda Model Today
Filtering Perception and Awareness
Av Joan Pedro-Carañana, Daniel Broudy m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
398 kr
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While the individual elements of the propaganda system (or filters) identified by the Propaganda Model (PM) – ownership, advertising, sources, flak and anti-communism – have previously been the focus of much scholarly attention, their systematisation in a model, empirical corroboration and …
Incorporating the Digital Commons
Corporate Involvement in Free and Open Source Software
Häftad, 2020
348 kr
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The concept of ‘the commons’ has been used as a framework to understand resources shared by a community rather than a private entity, and it has also inspired social movements working against the enclosure of public goods and resources. One such resource is free (libre) and open source software …
Condition of Digitality
A Post-Modern Marxism for the Practice of Digital Life
Häftad, 2020
414 kr
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David Harvey’s The Condition of Postmodernity rationalised capitalism’s transformation during an extraordinary year: 1989. It gave theoretical expression to a material and cultural reality that was just then getting properly started – globalisation and postmodernity – whilst highlighting the …
Internet Myth
From the Internet Imaginary to Network Ideologies
Av Paolo Bory
Häftad, 2020
368 kr
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‘The Internet is broken and Paolo Bory knows how we got here. In a powerful book based on original research, Bory carefully documents the myths, imaginaries, and ideologies that shaped the material and cultural history of the Internet. As important as this book is to understand our shattered …
Marx and Digital Machines
Alienation, Technology, Capitalism
Av Mike Healy
Häftad, 2020
338 kr
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“Healy closes his marvellous book by saying that ‘alienation is a constant feature and is experienced as a norm rather than as an aberration’.” - https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/19718_marx-and-digital-machines-alienation-technology-capitalism-by-mike-healy-reviewed-by-thomas-klikauer/This …
T?he Commons
Economic Alternatives in the Digital Age
Häftad, 2020
429 kr
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This book explores the potential creation of a broader collaborative economy through commons-based peer production (P2P) and the emergent role of information and communication technologies (ICTs). The book seeks to critically engage in the political discussion of commons-based peer production, …
Digital Platforms and Algorithmic Subjectivities
Av Emiliana Armano, Marco Briziarelli m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
624 kr
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Algorithms are a form of productive power – so how may we conceptualise the newly merged terrains of social life, economy and self in a world of digital platforms? How do multiple self-quantifying practices interact with questions of class, race and gender? This edited collection considers …
AI for Everyone?
Critical Perspectives
Häftad, 2021
489 kr
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We are entering a new era of technological determinism and solutionism in which governments and business actors are seeking data-driven change, assuming that Artificial Intelligence is now inevitable and ubiquitous. But we have not even started asking the right questions, let alone developed an …
Critical Communication
A Memoir
Häftad, 2025
359 kr
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This memoir, completed just before Vincent Mosco’s sudden death in February 2024, chronicles the last half century of research, activism and teaching in critical communication, technology and society from the perspective of one of its pioneering figures. It concentrates on the making of a radical …
Media Pasts and Futures
Critical Reflections on ‘Power Without Responsibility’
Av Des Freedman, Des Freedman m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
338 kr
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This collection of short essays from leading media scholars reflects on critical issues of media history, power, ownership, influence and impact. The book uses the acclaimed media title Power Without Responsibility (PWR) as a calling card, a cue to reflect on the limitations of the media in …
World War and World Peace in the Age of Digital Capitalism
Häftad, 2025
429 kr
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World politics has become highly polarised, and a new world war has become more likely. The United Nations’ 2024 Pact for the Future expressed concerns about ‘the growing risks of a nuclear war which could pose an existential threat to humanity’. Will humanity descend into barbarism, or will we …
