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Interpreting Networks - Hermeneutics, Actor-Network Theory, and New Media (Paperback)
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Interpreting Networks - Hermeneutics, Actor-Network Theory, and New Media (Paperback)
Series: Digital Society
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After postmodern critique has deconstructed, decentered, and
displaced order and identity on all levels, we are faced with the
Humpty Dumpty question of how to put the pieces back together
again. This book brings together the seldom associated discourses
of hermeneutics, actor-network theory, and new media in order to
formulate a theory of a global network society. Hermeneutics
re-opens the question of unity in a fragmented world. Actor-network
theory reinterprets the construction of meaning as networking. New
media studies show how networking is done. Networks arise, are
maintained, and are transformed by communicative actions that are
governed by network norms that make up a social operating system.
The social operating system offers an alternative to the
imperatives of algorithmic logic, functionality, and systemic
closure that dominate present day solutions to problems of
over-complexity in all areas. The world of meaning constructed by
the social operating system is a mixed reality in which filters and
layers replace the physical restraints of space and time as
parameters of knowing and acting. Society and nature, humans and
non-humans come together in a socio-sphere consisting of hybrid,
heterogeneous actor-networks. This book proposes reinterpreting
hermeneutics as networking and networking as guided by a social
operating system whose norms are based on new media. There emerges
a theory for a global network society described by different
concepts than those typical of Western modernity.
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