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The Digital Condition (Paperback)
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The Digital Condition (Paperback)
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Loot Price R514
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Our daily lives, our culture and our politics are now shaped by the
digital condition as large numbers of people involve themselves in
contentious negotiations of meaning in ever more dimensions of
life, from the trivial to the profound. They are making use of the
capacities of complex communication infrastructures, currently
dominated by social mass media such as Twitter and Facebook, on
which they have come to depend. Amidst a confusing plurality, Felix
Stalder argues that are three key constituents of this condition:
the use of existing cultural materials for one s own production,
the way in which new meaning is established as a collective
endeavour, and the underlying role of algorithms and automated
decision-making processes that reduce and give shape to massive
volumes of data. These three characteristics define what Stalder
calls the digital condition . Stalder also examines the profound
political implications of this new culture. We stand at a
crossroads between post-democracy and the commons, a concentration
of power among the few or a genuine widening of participation, with
the digital condition offering the potential for starkly different
outcomes. This ambitious and wide-ranging theory of our
contemporary digital condition will be of great interest to
students and scholars in media and communications, cultural
studies, and social, political and cultural theory, as well as to a
wider readership interested in the ways in which culture and
politics are changing today.
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