The digital nexus : identity, agency, and political engagement

Over half a century ago, in The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), Marshall McLuhan noted that the overlap of traditional print and new electronic media like radio and television produced widespread upheaval in personal and public life: Even without collision, such co-existence of technologies and awareness b...

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Main Author Foshay, Raphael
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Edmonton AU Press 2016
Athabasca University Press
Edition1
SeriesCultural Dialectics
Subjects
digital cultural studies, digital theory, media theory, cultural studies, communications, sociology
Digital media
Digital media > Political aspects
Digital media > Social aspects
Political aspects
Social aspects
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
World Wide Web
World Wide Web - Political aspects
World Wide Web > Social aspects
digital cultural studies, digital theory, media theory, cultural studies, communications, sociology
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Computational Turn and the Digital Network -- PART I DIGITAL THEORY -- 1 The Internet in Question -- 2 Emergent Meaning in the Information Age -- 3 Responsible Machines: The Opportunities and Challenges of Artificial Autonomous Agents -- 4 Open Source Transparency: The Making of an Altered Identity -- PART II DIGITAL CULTURE -- 5 Hacktivist (Pre)Occupations: Self-Surveillance, Participation, and Public Space -- 6 Institutions and Interpellations of the Dubject, the Doubled and Spaced Self -- 7 The Network University in Transition -- 8 Spinning the Web: Critical Discourse Analysis and Its Online Space -- 9 Paramortals, or Dancing with the Interactive Digital Dead -- PART III DIGITAL POLITICS -- 10 The Rise of the National Surveillance State in Comparative Perspective -- 11 Democracy and Identity in the Digital Age -- 12 The Digital Democratic Deficit: Analysis of Digital Voting in a Canadian Party Leadership Race -- 13 Navigating the Mediapolis: Digital Media and Emerging Practices of Democratic Participation -- 14 The Construction of Collective Action Frames in Facebook Groups -- Afterword -- Appendix: Do Machines Have Rights? Ethics in the Age of Artificial Intelligence -- List of Contributors -- Footnotes -- Ch02fn -- Ch04fn -- Ch06fn
  • Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Computational Turn and the Digital Network -- PART I: DIGIATL THEORY -- 1 The Internet in Question -- 2 Emergent Meaning in the Information Age -- 3 Responsible Machines: The Opportunities and Challenges of Artificial Autonomous Agents -- 4 Open Source Transparency: The Making of an Altered Identity -- PART II: DIGIATL CUTLURE -- 5 Hacktivist (Pre)Occupations: Self-Surveillance, Participation, and Public Space -- 6 Institutions and Interpellations of the Dubject, the Doubled and Spaced Self -- 7 The Network University in Transition -- 8 Spinning the Web: Critical Discourse Analysis and Its Online Space -- 9 Paramortals, or Dancing with the Interactive Digital Dead -- PART III: DIGIATL POLITICS -- 10 The Rise of the National Surveillance State in Comparative Perspective -- 11 Democracy and Identity in the Digital Age -- 12 The Digital Democratic Deficit: Analysis of Digital Voting in a Canadian Party Leadership Race -- 13 Navigating the Mediapolis: Digital Media and Emerging Practices of Democratic Participation -- 14 The Construction of Collective Action Frames in Facebook Groups -- Afterword -- Appendix: Do Machines Have Rights? Ethics in the Age of Artificial Intelligence -- List of Contributors
  • Appendix: Do Machines Have Rights? Ethics in the Age of Artificial Intelligence --
  • Part II Digital culture --
  • Contents --
  • 7 The Network University in Transition --
  • 5 Hacktivist (Pre)Occupations: Self-Surveillance, Participation, and Public Space --
  • List of Contributors
  • 1 The Internet in Question --
  • 13 Navigating the Mediapolis: Digital Media and Emerging Practices of Democratic Participation --
  • 11 Democracy and Identity in the Digital Age --
  • 2 Emergent Meaning in the Information Age --
  • 6 Institutions and Interpellations of the Dubject, the Doubled and Spaced Self --
  • Acknowledgements --
  • 4 Open Source Transparency: The Making of an Altered Identity --
  • Part III Digital politics --
  • Afterword --
  • 8 Spinning the Web: Critical Discourse Analysis and Its Online Space --
  • Frontmatter --
  • 10 The Rise of the National Surveillance State in Comparative Perspective --
  • Part I Digital theory --
  • 3 Responsible Machines: The Opportunities and Challenges of Artificial Autonomous Agents --
  • 14 The Construction of Collective Action Frames in Facebook Groups --
  • Introduction: The Computational Turn and the Digital Network --
  • 9 Paramortals, or Dancing with the Interactive Digital Dead 1 --
  • 12 The Digital Democratic Deficit: Analysis of Digital Voting in a Canadian Party Leadership Race --