The Quirks Of Digital Culture

Author : David Beer
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787699153
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quirks of Digital Culture written by David Beer and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-11 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the quirks of digital culture. Through a series of short punchy chapters, it uses these quirks as momentary glimpses into the hidden dynamics of our swirling, highly mediated and often unfathomable cultural experiences.

Author : David Beer
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787699137
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quirks of Digital Culture written by David Beer and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-11 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the quirks of digital culture. Through a series of short punchy chapters, it uses these quirks as momentary glimpses into the hidden dynamics of our swirling, highly mediated and often unfathomable cultural experiences.

Author : Charlie Gere
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 9781861891433
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digital Culture written by Charlie Gere and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last twenty years, digital technology has begun to touch on almost every aspect of our lives. Nowadays most forms of mass media, television, recorded music and film are produced and even distributed digitally; and these media are beginning to converge with digital forms, such as the internet, the World Wide Web, and video games, to produce a seamless digital mediascape. At work we are surrounded by technology, whether in offices or in supermarkets and factories, where almost every aspect of planning, design, marketing, production and distribution is monitored or controlled digitally. In Digital Culture Charlie Gere articulates the degree to which our everyday lives are becoming dominated by digital technology, whether in terms of leisure, work or bureaucracy. This dominance is reflected in other areas, including the worlds of finance, technology, scientific research, media and telecommunications. Out of this situation a particular set of cultural responses has emerged, for example, in art, music, design, film, literature and elsewhere. This book offers a new perspective on digital culture by examining its development, and reveals that, despite appearances, it is neither radically new, nor ultimately technologically driven. The author traces its roots to the late 18th century, and shows how it sprang from a number of impulses, including the information needs of industrial capitalism and contemporary warfare, avant-garde artistic practice, counter-cultural experimentation, radical philosophy and sub-cultural style. It is these conditions that produced both digital technology and digital culture, and which have determined how they develop.

Author : Samuel Chase Coale
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813932874
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quirks of the Quantum written by Samuel Chase Coale and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2012-11-07 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Episodic and disconnected, much of postmodern fiction mirrors the world as quantum theorists describe it, according to Samuel Chase Coale. In Quirks of the Quantum, Coale shows how the doubts, misgivings, and ambiguities reflected in the postmodern American novel have been influenced by the metaphors and models of quantum theory. Coale explains the basic facets of quantum theory in lay terms and then applies them to a selection of texts, including Don DeLillo's Underworld, Joan Didion's Democracy, and Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day. Using a new approach to literature and culture, this book aims to bridge the gap between science and the humanities by suggesting the many areas where they connect.

Author : John Cheney-Lippold
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479802441
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We Are Data written by John Cheney-Lippold and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What identity means in an algorithmic age: how it works, how our lives are controlled by it, and how we can resist it Algorithms are everywhere, organizing the near limitless data that exists in our world. Derived from our every search, like, click, and purchase, algorithms determine the news we get, the ads we see, the information accessible to us and even who our friends are. These complex configurations not only form knowledge and social relationships in the digital and physical world, but also determine who we are and who we can be, both on and offline. Algorithms create and recreate us, using our data to assign and reassign our gender, race, sexuality, and citizenship status. They can recognize us as celebrities or mark us as terrorists. In this era of ubiquitous surveillance, contemporary data collection entails more than gathering information about us. Entities like Google, Facebook, and the NSA also decide what that information means, constructing our worlds and the identities we inhabit in the process. We have little control over who we algorithmically are. Our identities are made useful not for us—but for someone else. Through a series of entertaining and engaging examples, John Cheney-Lippold draws on the social constructions of identity to advance a new understanding of our algorithmic identities. We Are Data will educate and inspire readers who want to wrest back some freedom in our increasingly surveilled and algorithmically-constructed world.

Author : Vincent Miller
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1847874975
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Digital Culture written by Vincent Miller and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2011-03-02 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of digital culture in everyday life that explains the social, economic and cultural dimensions of the information society.

Author : Jacob Johanssen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351052047
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psychoanalysis and Digital Culture written by Jacob Johanssen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychoanalysis and Digital Culture offers a comprehensive account of our contemporary media environment—digital culture and audiences in particular—by drawing on psychoanalysis and media studies frameworks. It provides an introduction to the psychoanalytic affect theories of Sigmund Freud and Didier Anzieu and applies them theoretically and methodologically in a number of case studies. Johanssen argues that digital media fundamentally shape our subjectivities on affective and unconscious levels, and he critically analyses phenomena such as television viewing, Twitter use, affective labour on social media, and data-mining. How does watching television involve the body? Why are we so drawn to reality television? Why do we share certain things on social media and not others? How are bodies represented on social media? How do big data and data mining influence our identities? Can algorithms help us make better decisions? These questions amongst others are addressed in the chapters of this wide-ranging book. Johanssen shows in a number of case studies how a psychoanalytic angle can bring new insights to audience studies and digital media research more generally. From audience research with viewers of the reality television show Embarrassing Bodies and how they unconsciously used it to work through feelings about their own bodies, to a critical engagement with Hardt and Negri's notion of affective labour and how individuals with bodily differences used social media for their own affective-digital labour, the book suggests that an understanding of affect based on Freud and Anzieu is helpful when thinking about media use. The monograph also discusses the perverse implications of algorithms, big data and data mining for subjectivities. In drawing on empirical data and examples throughout, Johanssen presents a compelling analysis of our contemporary media environment.

Author : Vincent Miller
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1526416697
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Digital Culture written by Vincent Miller and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not simply a book about ‘internet studies’. It is a book that considers many wider forms of digital culture, including mobile technologies, surveillance, algorithms, ambient intelligence, gaming, big data and technological bodies (to name a few) in order to explore how digital technology - in a broad sense - is used within the wider contexts of our everyday lives. "The first edition of Understanding Digital Culture set a new benchmark as the most comprehensive, scholarly and accessible introduction to the area. This latest edition, thoroughly updated and substantially expanded, is even better – a perfectly balanced book that combines theory and empirical analysis to illuminate the cutting-edge of cultural and social change." - Professor Majid Yar, Lancaster University

Author : Aleksandra Uzelac
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789536096466
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digital Culture written by Aleksandra Uzelac and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John H. Fisher
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813148464
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emergence of Standard English written by John H. Fisher and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language scholars have traditionally agreed that the development of the English language was largely unplanned. John H. Fisher challenges this view, demonstrating that the standardization of writing and pronunciation was, and still is, made under the control of political and intellectual forces. In these essays Fisher chronicles his gradual realization that Standard English was not a popular evolution at all but was the direct result of political decisions made by the Lancastrian administrations of Henry IV and Henry V. To achieve standardization and acceptance of the vernacular, these kings turned to their Chancery scribes, who were responsible for writing and copying legal and royal documents. Chaucer, a relative of the king, began to be labeled by the government as a master of the language, and it was Henry V who inspired the fifteenth-century tradition of citing Chaucer as the "maker" of English. An even more important link between language development and government practice is the fact that Chaucer himself composed in the English of the Chancery scribes. Fisher discusses the development of Chancery practices, royal involvement in promoting use of the vernacular, Chaucer's use of English, Caxton's use of Chancery Standard, and the nineteenth-century phenomenon of a standard, or "received," pronunciation of English. This engaging and clearly written work will change the way scholars understand the development of English and think about the intentional shaping of our language.