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dc.contributor.editorChandler, David
dc.contributor.editorFuchs, Christian
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-16T12:55:31Z
dc.date.available2025-01-16T12:55:31Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifierONIX_20250116_9781912656103_10
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/97280
dc.description.abstractThis volume 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 and 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. An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high quality books Open Access for the public good. More information about the initiative and details about KU’s Open Access programme can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory
dc.subject.otherBig Data, digital capitalism, digital democracy, digital labour, digital politics, posthuman
dc.titleDigital Objects, Digital Subjects
dc.title.alternativeInterdisciplinary Perspectives on Capitalism, Labour and Politics in the Age of Big Data
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.16997/book29
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy2725c638-53f3-4872-9824-99c3555366f3
oapen.relation.isbn9781912656103
oapen.relation.isbn9781912656080
oapen.relation.isbn9781912656202
oapen.imprintUniversity of Westminster Press
oapen.pages248


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