Networked Publics (Paperback)

How maturing digital media and network technologies are transforming place, culture, politics, and infrastructure in our everyday life. Digital media and network technologies are now part of everyday life. The Internet has become the backbone of communication, commerce, and media; the ubiquitous mobile phone connects us with others as it removes us from any stable sense of location. Networked Publics examines the ways that the social and cultural shifts created by these technologies have transformed our relationships to (and definitions of) place, culture, politics, and infrastructure. Four chapters-each by an interdisciplinary team of scholars using collaborative software-provide a synoptic overview along with illustrative case studies. The chapter on place describes how digital networks enable us to be present in physical and networked places simultaneously-often at the expense of nondigital commitments. The chapter on culture explores the growth and impact of amateur-produced and remixed content online. The chapter on politics examines the new networked modes of bottom-up political expression and mobilization. And finally, the chapter on infrastructure notes the tension between openness and control in the flow of information, as seen in the current controversy over net neutrality.

General

Imprint:	MIT Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Networked Publics
Release date:	August 2012
First published:	2008
Editors:	Kazys Varnelis (Director, Network Architecture Lab, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Col)
Dimensions:	229 x 178 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-0-262-51792-8
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Impact of science & technology on society Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Media, information & communication industries > Advertising industry Promotions
LSN:	0-262-51792-2
Barcode:	9780262517928

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