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Digital objects, digital subjects : interdisciplinary perspectives on capitalism, labour and politics in the age of big data

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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.

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303.4834 DIG g

Publisher

London : University of Westminster Press., 2019

Collation

iv, 242p. : ill.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781912656103

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303.4834

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Subject(s)

Internet and activism
Internet--Political aspects
Big data--Social aspects

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edited by David Chandler and Christian Fuchs

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