Understanding digital culture. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Vincent Miller.
• Authors: Miller, Vincent (Vincent Alward)
• Contents: Introduction; Revolutionary Technologies?; The Structure of the Book; Chapter 1: Key Elements of Digital Media; Technical Processes; Cultural Forms; Immersive Experiences; Chapter 2: The Economic Foundations of the Information Age; Post-Industrialism; The Information Society; Post-Fordism and Globalisation; Informationalism and the Network Society; Weightless Economies, Intellectual Property and the Commodification of Knowledge; Chapter 3: Convergence and the Contemporary Media Experience; Technological Convergence; Regulatory Convergence; Media Industry Convergence; Convergence Culture ad the Contemporary Media Experience; Producers, Consumers, Prosumers and 'Produsage'; Chapter 4: 'Everyone is Watching': Privacy and Surveillance in Digital Life; The Changing Cultural Contexts of Privacy; Digital Surveillance: Spaces, Traces and Tools; The Rise Surveillance: Causes and Processes; Commercial Imperatives and the Political Economy of Surveillance; Why Care about a Surveillance Society?; Chapter 5: Information Politics and the Online Public Sphere; The Poltical Context of Information Politics; ICT-Enabled Politics; An Internet Public Sphere?; Chapter 6: Cybercrime, Cyberterrorism and Cyberware; Cybercrime: A Muddy Field; The Tools and Techniques of Cybercrime, Cyberactivism and Cyberwarfare; Cyber Politics by Another Means: Cyber Warfare; Chapter 7: Digital Identity; 'Objects to Think with': Early Internet Studies and Poststructuralism; Personal Homepages and the 'Re-Centring' of the Individual; Personal Blogging, Individualisation and the Reflexive Project of the Self; Avatar and Identity; Social Networks, Profiles and Networked Identity; Who needs Identity?; Chapter 8: Digital Community? Space, Networks and Relationships; Searching for Lost Community: Urbanisation, Space and Scales of Experience; Globalisation, Technology and the Rise of Individualism; 'Virtual' Communities Over Before they Began?; Network Societies, Network Socialities and Networked Individualism; Being Together Online: Networks, Instrumentalism and Intimacy; Chapter 9: The Body and Information Technology; The Body, Technology and Society; The Posthuman; Technology, Embodiment Relations and 'Homo Faber'; Conclusion: Base, Superstructure, Infrastructure (Revisited);
• Edition: Second edition
• Publisher Details: London : SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (336 pages)
• Subjects: 303.48/33; Information society; Internet -- Social aspects; Information technology -- Social aspects; Mass media -- Technological innovations -- Social aspects; Information society; Information technology -- Social aspects; Internet -- Social aspects; Digitalisierung; Informationsgesellschaft
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526416704; 1526416700
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