Network Culture - Politics For the Information Age (Paperback)

In an age of email lists and discussion groups, e-zines and weblogs, bringing together users, consumers, workers and activists from around the globe, what kinds of political subjectivity are emerging? What kinds of politics become possible in a time of information overload and media saturation? What structures of power and control operate over a self-organising system like the internet?In this highly original new work, Tiziana Terranova investigates the political dimension of the network culture in which we now live, and explores what the new forms of communication and organisation might mean for our understanding of power and politics. Terranova engages with key concepts and debates in cultural theory and cultural politics, using examples from media culture, computing, network dynamics, and internet activism within the anti-capitalist and anti-war movements. Network Culture concludes that the nonlinear network dynamics that link different modes of communication at different levels (from local radio to satellite television, from the national press to the internet, from broadcasting to rumours and conspiracy theories) provide the conditions within which another politics can emerge. This other politics, the book suggests, does not entail the production of a new political discourse or ideology, but the invention of micropolitical tactics able to stand up to new forms of social control.

General

Imprint:	Pluto Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2004
First published:	June 2004
Authors:	Tiziana Terranova
Dimensions:	215 x 134 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	184
ISBN-13:	978-0-7453-1748-9
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > General Books > Computing & IT > Social & legal aspects of computing > Impact of computing & IT on society Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
LSN:	0-7453-1748-0
Barcode:	9780745317489

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