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The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age (Paperback)
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The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age (Paperback)
Series: Electronic Mediations
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Just what is the “participatory condition”? It is the situation
in which taking part in something with others has become both
environmental and normative. The fact that we have always
participated does not mean we have always lived under the
participatory condition. What is distinctive about the present is
the extent to which the everyday social, economic, cultural, and
political activities that comprise simply being in the world have
been thematized and organized around the priority of
participation. Structured along four axes investigating the
relations between participation and politics, surveillance,
openness, and aesthetics, The Participatory Condition in the
Digital Age comprises fifteen essays that explore the promises,
possibilities, and failures of contemporary participatory media
practices as related to power, Occupy Wall Street, the Arab Spring
uprisings, worker-owned cooperatives for the post-Internet age;
paradoxes of participation, media activism, open source projects;
participatory civic life; commercial surveillance; contemporary art
and design; and education. This book represents the most
comprehensive and transdisciplinary endeavor to date to examine the
nature, place, and value of participation in the digital age. Just
as in 1979, when Jean-François Lyotard proposed that “the
postmodern condition” was characterized by the questioning of
historical grand narratives, The Participatory Condition in the
Digital Age investigates how participation has become a central
preoccupation of our time. Contributors: Mark Andrejevic,
Pomona College; Bart Cammaerts, London School of Economics and
Political Science (LSE); Nico Carpentier, Vrije Universiteit
Brussel (VUB – Free University of Brussels) and Charles
University in Prague; Julie E. Cohen, Georgetown University; Kate
Crawford, MIT; Alessandro Delfanti, University of Toronto;
Christina Dunbar-Hester, University of Southern California; Rudolf
Frieling, California College of Arts and the San Francisco Art
Institute; Salvatore Iaconesi, La Sapienza University of Rome and
ISIA Design Florence; Jason Edward Lewis, Concordia University;
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer; Graham Pullin, University of Dundee; Trebor
Scholz, The New School in New York City; Cayley Sorochan, McGill
University; Bernard Stiegler, Institute for Research and Innovation
in Paris; Krzysztof Wodiczko, Harvard Graduate School of Design;
Jillian C. York.
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