Digital Objects, Digital Subjects

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, i...

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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-364352025-07-31T11:00:06Z Digital Objects, Digital Subjects Chandler, David Fuchs, Christian Sociology Big Data posthuman labour political economy activism politics digital capitalism theory anthropocene thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC 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. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2019-02-25 23:55 2020-03-14 03:00:36 2020-04-01T10:53:39Z 2019-01-30 book 1004203 OCN: 1100540326 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25880 9781912656202;9781912656097;9781912656103 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/36435 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25880/1/1004203.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25880/1/1004203.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25880/1/1004203.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25880/1/1004203.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25880/1/1004203.pdf University of Westminster Press 10.16997/book29 10.16997/book29 ebf00090-01f8-4204-9e78-018b9f254c60 Knowledge Unlatched b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781912656202;9781912656097;9781912656103 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2018: HSS Frontlist Books London 102534 KU Select 2018: HSS Frontlist Books open access
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Big Data
posthuman
labour
political economy
activism
politics
digital capitalism
theory
anthropocene
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies
Digital Objects, Digital Subjects
title Digital Objects, Digital Subjects
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topic Sociology
Big Data
posthuman
labour
political economy
activism
politics
digital capitalism
theory
anthropocene
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Big Data
posthuman
labour
political economy
activism
politics
digital capitalism
theory
anthropocene
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