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oapen-20.500.12657-258802021-11-10T07:57:32Z Digital Objects, Digital Subjects Chandler, David Fuchs, Christian Sociology Big Data posthuman labour political economy activism politics digital capitalism theory anthropocene bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFC Cultural studies This book explores activism, research and critique in the age of digital subjects and objects and Big Data capitalism after a digital turn said to have radically transformed our political futures. Optimists assert that the ‘digital’ promises: new forms of community and ways of knowing and sensing, innovation, participatory culture, networked activism, and distributed democracy. Pessimists argue that digital technologies have extended domination via new forms of control, networked authoritarianism and exploitation, dehumanization and the surveillance society. Leading international scholars present varied interdisciplinary assessments of such claims—in theory and via dialogue—and of the digital’s impact on society, the potentials, pitfalls, limits and ideologies, of digital activism. They reflect on whether computational social science, digital humanities and ubiquitous datafication lead to digital positivism that threatens critical research or lead to new horizons in theory and society. 2019-02-25 23:55 2020-03-14 03:00:36 2020-04-01T10:53:39Z 2020-04-01T10:53:39Z 2019-01-30 book 1004203 OCN: 1100540326 9781912656202;9781912656097;9781912656103 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25880 eng application/pdf n/a 1004203.pdf https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/10.16997/book29/ University of Westminster Press 10.16997/book29 102534 10.16997/book29 2725c638-53f3-4872-9824-99c3555366f3 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781912656202;9781912656097;9781912656103 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) London 102534 KU Select 2018: HSS Frontlist Books Knowledge Unlatched open access
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This book explores activism, research and critique in the age of digital subjects and objects and Big Data capitalism after a digital turn said to have radically transformed our political futures. Optimists assert that the ‘digital’ promises: new forms of community and ways of knowing and sensing, innovation, participatory culture, networked activism, and distributed democracy. Pessimists argue that digital technologies have extended domination via new forms of control, networked authoritarianism and exploitation, dehumanization and the surveillance society. Leading international scholars present varied interdisciplinary assessments of such claims—in theory and via dialogue—and of the digital’s impact on society, the potentials, pitfalls, limits and ideologies, of digital activism. They reflect on whether computational social science, digital humanities and ubiquitous datafication lead to digital positivism that threatens critical research or lead to new horizons in theory and society.
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