Culture And Politics In The Information Age

Author : Frank Webster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134577965

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This volume addresses these key issues through an analysis of important theoretical debates on issues such as digital democracy, cultural politics and transnational communities. Featuring contributors from both sides of the Atlantic, the book contains a series of case studies on new social movements including campaigns on the environment, gender, animal rights and human rights. It combines cutting edge research with theoretical material and makes an important contribution to this highly topical and rapidly growing area. This book will be invaluable reading for students in areas including Politics, Communications and IT, Sociology and Cultural Studies.

Author : Tiziana Terranova
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015060070177

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Network Culture by Tiziana Terranova Pdf

A sophisticated argument about how the internet and communication networks impact on politics, democracy, and identity.

Author : Frank Webster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134577958

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Culture and Politics in the Information Age by Frank Webster Pdf

This volume addresses these key issues through an analysis of important theoretical debates on issues such as digital democracy, cultural politics and transnational communities. Featuring contributors from both sides of the Atlantic, the book contains a series of case studies on new social movements including campaigns on the environment, gender, animal rights and human rights. It combines cutting edge research with theoretical material and makes an important contribution to this highly topical and rapidly growing area. This book will be invaluable reading for students in areas including Politics, Communications and IT, Sociology and Cultural Studies.

Author : Mark Poster
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0822338394

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Information Please by Mark Poster Pdf

Mark Poster considers how new media&—from TiVO to digital file sharing&—affects society, and he traces its implications for cultural theory and progressive political change.

Author : Laura J. Shepherd,Caitlin Hamilton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317376033

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Understanding Popular Culture and World Politics in the Digital Age by Laura J. Shepherd,Caitlin Hamilton Pdf

The practices of world politics are now scrutinised in a way that is unprecedented, with even those previously – or conventionally assumed to be – disengaged from international affairs being drawn into world politics by social media. Interactive websites allow users to follow election results in real-time from the other side of the world, and online mapping means that the world ‘out there’ is now available on your mobile phone. Understanding Popular Culture and World Politics in the Digital Age engages these themes in contemporary world politics, to better understand how digital communication through new media technologies changes our encounters with the world. Whether the focus is digital media, social networking or user-generated content, these sites of political activity and the artefacts they produce have much to tell us about how we engage world politics in the contemporary age. This volume represents the starting point of a dialogue about how digital technologies are beginning to impact the research and practice of scholars and practitioners in the field of International Relations, with the collection of cutting-edge essays dealing specifically with the intertextuality of world politics and digital popular culture. This book will be of use to International Relations research academics (and critically engaged publics) interested in the core themes of global politics – subjectivity, militarism, humanitarianism, civil society organisation, and governance. The book also employs theories and techniques closely associated with other social science disciplines, including political theory, sociology, cultural studies and media studies.

Author : Pol Bargués-Pedreny,David Chandler,Elena Simon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351124461

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Mapping and Politics in the Digital Age by Pol Bargués-Pedreny,David Chandler,Elena Simon Pdf

Throughout history, maps have been a powerful tool in the constitutive imaginary of governments seeking to define or contest the limits of their political reach. Today, new digital technologies have become central to mapping as a way of formulating alternative political visions. Mapping can also help marginalised communities to construct speculative designs using participatory practices. Mapping and Politics in the Digital Age explores how the development of new digital technologies and mapping practices are transforming global politics, power, and cooperation. The book brings together authors from across political and social theory, geography, media studies and anthropology to explore mapping and politics across three sections. Contestations introduces the reader to contemporary developments within mapping and explores the politics of mapping as a form of knowledge and contestation. Governance analyses mapping as a set of institutional practices, providing key methodological frames for understanding global governance in the realms of urban politics, refugee control, health crises and humanitarian interventions and new techniques of biometric regulation and autonomic computation. Imaginaries provides examples of future-oriented analytical frameworks, highlighting the transformation of mapping in an age of digital technologies of control and regulation. In a world conceived as without borders and fixed relations, new forms of mapping stress the need to rethink assumptions of power and knowledge. This book provides a sophisticated and nuanced analysis of the role ofmapping in contemporary global governance, and will be of interest to students and researchers working within politics, geography, sociology, media, and digital culture and technology.

Author : Thalia Magioglou
Publisher : IAP
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781623963699

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Culture and Political Psychology by Thalia Magioglou Pdf

This book is perhaps the first systematic treatment of politics from the perspective of cultural psychology. Politics is a complex that psychology usually fails to understand— as it assumes a position in society that attempts to be free of politics itself. Politics is associated both with an everyday practice, and the dynamics of globalization; with the way group conflicts, ideologies, social representations and identities, are lived and co-constructed by social actors. The authors of the book address these issues through their research grounded in different parts of the world, on democracy and political order, the social representation of power, gender studies, the use of metaphors and symbolic power in political discourse, social identities and methodological questions. The book will be used by social and political psychologists but is also of interest to the other social sciences: political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, educationalists, and it is at a level where sophisticated lay public would be able to appreciate its coverage. Its use in upperlevel college teaching is possible, and expected at graduate/postgraduate levels.

Author : David L. Paletz,Diana Marie Owen,Timothy E. Cook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Communication
ISBN : 1453337865

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American Government and Politics in the Information Age by David L. Paletz,Diana Marie Owen,Timothy E. Cook Pdf

Author : Gillian Youngs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134174904

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Global Political Economy in the Information Age by Gillian Youngs Pdf

Introduction: 20th-21st century imaginings and realities Section 1: Time/Space Frameworks 1. States and Markets: understanding geospatial time 2. Virtual Realities: exploring sociospatiality 3. The Political Economy of Time: historical time, speed and mobility Section 2: Borders and Inequality 4. Transcendence and Communication 5. Inequality as Driver 6. Embedding Patriarchy: feminism and inequality in the Internet era Section 3: Technofutures and Power 7. Complex Hegemony in the 21st Century: power and inequality Conclusion

Author : Benjamin Baez
Publisher : IAP
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781623967949

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Technologies of Government by Benjamin Baez Pdf

In this book, Baez examines a series of governmental “technologies” that he believes strongly characterize our present. The technologies that he addresses in this book are information, statistics, databases, economy, and accountability. He offers arguments about the role these technologies play in contemporary politics. Specifically, Baez analyzes these technologies in terms of (the sometimes oppositional) rationalities for rendering reality thinkable, and, consequently, governable. These technologies bear on the field of education, but also exceed it. So, while issues in education frame many of the arguments in this book, the book’s also has usefulness to those outside of field of education. Specifically, Baez concludes that the governmental technologies listed above all are coopted by neoliberal rationalities rendering our lives thinkable and governable through an array of devices for the management of risk, using the model of the economy, and heavily investing in the uses of information, statistics, databases, and oversight mechanisms associated with accountability. Baez leaves readers with more questions than they might have had prior to reading the book, so that they may re-imagine their own present and future and thus their own forms of self-government.

Author : John B. Thompson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745684994

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Books in the Digital Age by John B. Thompson Pdf

The book publishing industry is going through a period of profound and turbulent change brought about in part by the digital revolution. What is the role of the book in an age preoccupied with computers and the internet? How has the book publishing industry been transformed by the economic and technological upheavals of recent years, and how is it likely to change in the future? This is the first major study of the book publishing industry in Britain and the United States for more than two decades. Thompson focuses on academic and higher education publishing and analyses the evolution of these sectors from 1980 to the present. He shows that each sector is characterized by its own distinctive ‘logic’ or dynamic of change, and that by reconstructing this logic we can understand the problems, challenges and opportunities faced by publishing firms today. He also shows that the digital revolution has had, and continues to have, a profound impact on the book publishing business, although the real impact of this revolution has little to do with the ebook scenarios imagined by many commentators. Books in the Digital Age will become a standard work on the publishing industry at the beginning of the 21st century. It will be of great interest to students taking courses in the sociology of culture, media and cultural studies, and publishing. It will also be of great value to professionals in the publishing industry, educators and policy makers, and to anyone interested in books and their future.

Author : Manuel Castells
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781444318241

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The Power of Identity by Manuel Castells Pdf

In this second volume of The Information Age trilogy, with an extensive new preface following the recent global economic crisis, Manuel Castells deals with the social, political, and cultural dynamics associated with the technological transformation of our societies and with the globalization of the economy. Extensive new preface examines how dramatic recent events have transformed the socio-political landscape of our world Applies Castells’ hypotheses to contemporary issues such as Al Qaeda and global terrorist networks, American unilateralism and the crisis of political legitimacy throughout the world A brilliant account of social, cultural, and political conflict and struggle all over the world Analyzes the importance of cultural, religious, and national identity as sources of meaning for people, and its implications for social movement Throws new light on the dynamics of global and local change

Author : Mark Poster
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006-08-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114401420

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Information Please by Mark Poster Pdf

Mark Poster considers how new media&—from TiVO to digital file sharing&—affects society, and he traces its implications for cultural theory and progressive political change.

Author : Mark Poster
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0816638357

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What's the Matter with the Internet? by Mark Poster Pdf

In What's the Matter with the Internet?, leading cultural theorist Mark Poster offers a sophisticated and astute assessment of the potential the new medium has to redefine culture and politics. Avoiding the mindless hype and meaningless jargon that has characterized much of the debate about the future of the Web, he details what truly distinguishes the Internet from other media and the implications these novel properties have for such vital issues as authorship, national identity and global citizenship, the fate of ethnicity and race, and democracy. Arguing that the Internet demands a social and cultural theory appropriate to the specific qualities of cyberspace, Poster reformulates the ideas of thinkers associated with our understanding of post-modern culture and the media (including Foucault, Deleuze, Heidegger, Baudrillard, and Derrida) to account for and illuminate the virtual world, paying particular attention to its political dimensions and the nature of identity. In this innovative analysis, Poster acknowledges that although the colonization of the Internet by corporations and governments does threaten to retard its capacity to bring about genuine change, the new medium is still capable of transforming both contemporary social practices and the way we see the world and ourselves.

Author : W. Lance Bennett,Steven Livingston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108843058

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The Disinformation Age by W. Lance Bennett,Steven Livingston Pdf

This book shows how disinformation spread by partisan organizations and media platforms undermines institutional legitimacy on which authoritative information depends.