Information Politics: Liberation and Exploitation in the Digital Society - Rilegato

Jordan, Tim

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ISBN 10: 0745333672 ISBN 13: 9780745333670

Casa editrice: Pluto Pr, 2015

Riassunto

Conflict over information has become a central part of twenty-first century politics and culture. Currents of liberation and exploitation course through the debates about Edward Snowden and surveillance, Anonymous, the Arab Spring, search engines, and social media. In Information Politics, Tim Jordan confronts contemporary panic about whether we are being controlled by digital systems, such as social networks, iPhones, and Google. He approaches these issues in relation to the information politics that have emerged with the rise of mass digital cultures and the internet. Within our modern world, he argues for possibilities of rebellion and liberation interwoven among social and political conflicts including gender, class, and ecology.
            The first of Pluto Press’s new Digital Barricades series, focusing on ground-breaking critical explorations of resistance within the digital world, Information Politics explores the exploitations both facilitated by, and contested through, increases in information flows; the embedding of information technologies in daily life; and the intersection of network and control protocols. Anyone hoping to get to grips with the rapidly changing terrain of digital culture and conflict should start here.

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Recensione:

'A must read for those seeking to understand the impact of digital culture and their attendant communication technologies on our quest for liberty and equality.' (Hector Postigo, Associate Professor of Media Studies and Production, Temple University)

'A determined philosophical inquiry into the nature of information politics, from the abstraction of the cloud to the battlegrounds of hactivists, to identify the forms of exploitation and liberation endemic to the recursive movement of information. This book offers rich philosophical grounding for current and future studies of new media.' (Tarleton Gillespie, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Cornell University)

'Tim Jordan has yet again produced a compelling and incisive account of fundamental developments in our increasingly digital world. His sophisticated theoretical analysis is clearly articulated and is based on a thorough grasp of both the technical and the social. He brilliantly avoids both cultural pessimism and techno-utopianism in his presentation of ‘political antagonisms’.' (Sally Wyatt, Professor of Digital Cultures in Development, Maastricht University)

L'autore:

Willie Thompson was until his retirement Professor of Contemporary History at Glasgow Caledonian University. His books, published by Pluto, include The Good Old Cause: British Communism 1920-1991 (1992), What Happened to History? (2000) and Ideologies in the Age of Extremes: Liberalism, Conservatism, Communism, Fascism 1914-91 (2011). He is currently vice-president of the Socialist History Society.

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• Editore: Pluto Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0745333672
• ISBN 13: 9780745333670
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 232