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Raphael Foshay has been teaching in Athabasca University¿s MA Program in Integrated Studies since 2008. His interests lie principally in literary, cultural, and interdisciplinary theory. He has written on Derrida, Hegel, Heidegger, and Levinas, as well as such literary figures as Joyce, Yeats, Kafka, and Wyndham Lewis and is the editor of
Valences of Interdisciplinarity: Theory, Practice, Pedagogy.Contributors: Ian Angus, Maria Bakardjieva, Daryl Campbell, Sharone Daniel, Andrew Feenberg, Raphael Foshay, Carolyn Guertin, David J. Gunkel, Bob Hanke, Leslie Lindballe, Mark McCutcheon, Roman Onufrijchuk, Josipa G. Petrunic, Peter J. Smith, Lorna Stefanick, and Karen Wall
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Computational Turn and the Digital Network - Raphael Foshay
Part I: Digital Theory1 The Internet in Question /
Andrew Feenberg2 Emergent Meaning in the Information Age /
Ian Angus3 Responsible Machines: The Opportunities and Challenges of Artificial Autonomous Agents /
David J. Gunkel4 Open Source Transparency: The Making of an Altered Identity /
Daryl CampbellPart II: Digital Culture5 Hacktivist (Pre)Occupations: Self-Surveillance, Participation and Public Space /
Carolyn Guertin6 Theoretical and Institutional Contexts of the Dubject, the Doubled and Spaced Self /
Mark A. McCutcheon7 The Network University in Transition /
Bob Hanke8 Spinning the Web: Critical Discourse Analysis and its Online Space /
Leslie Lindballe9 Paramortals, or Dancing with the Interactive Digital Dead /
Roman OnufrijchukPart III: Digital Politics10 The Rise of the National Surveillance State in Comparative Perspective /
Peter J. Smith11 Democracy and Identity in the Digital Age /
Lorna Stefanick and Karen Wall12 The Digital Democratic Deficit: Analysis of Digital Voting in a Canadian Party Leadership Race /
Josipa G. Petrunic13 Navigating the Mediapolis: Digital Media and Emerging Practices of Democratic Participation /
Maria Bakardjieva14 The Construction of Collective Action Frames in Facebook Groups /
Sharone DanielAfterword /
Raphael FoshayAppendix: Do Machines Have Rights? Ethics in the Age of Artificial Intelligence /
David Gunkel, Interviewed by Paul KelloggList of Contributors
Summary
The totalizing scope of the combined effects of computerization and the worldwide network are the subject of the essays in The Digital Nexus, a volume that responds to McLuhan’s request for a “special study” of the tsunami-like transformation of the communication landscape.
