TY  - BOOK
ED  - Chandler, David
ED  - Fuchs, Christian
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.16997/book29
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1004203
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1100540326
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Big Data
KW  - posthuman
KW  - labour
KW  - political economy
KW  - activism
KW  - politics
KW  - digital capitalism
KW  - theory
KW  - anthropocene
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/5f4a2e23-af0a-4a55-b407-2c2d5aa1949f/1004203.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25880
PB  - University of Westminster Press
PP  - London
PY  - 2019-01-30
SN  - 9781912656202;9781912656097;9781912656103
TI  - Digital Objects, Digital Subjects : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Capitalism, Labour and Politics in the Age of Big Data
ER  - 
