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Unrealized Digital Democracy - A Critical Analysis of Power in the Digital Age

English · Hardback

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The author makes the cause for an analysis of digital politics grounded in both materialism and Bruno Latour's Actor-Network-Theory. Such an analysis identifies asymmetries of digital power in the contemporary internet, explaining some of the more concerning, undemocratic trends of recent years including politically-motivated violence.


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Introduction
Chapter One: A Critical Digital History
Chapter Two: Compressed Political Temporalities in a Feudalized Internet as a Threat to Peaceful Democratic Participation
Chapter Three: Thinking Politically Through Digital Task Saturation
Conclusion: The Future of The Internet: New Actors and an Invitation for Empowering Activism


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By Garrett Pierman

Summary

The author makes the cause for an analysis of digital politics grounded in both materialism and Bruno Latour’s Actor-Network-Theory. Such an analysis identifies asymmetries of digital power in the contemporary internet, explaining some of the more concerning, undemocratic trends of recent years including politically-motivated violence.

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