Becoming-Social in a Networked Age

Zusatztext "This is the book on post-documentary technologies that I've been waiting for: an understandable! but also deep and critical explanation of the philosophical assumptions! the form and functions! and the political implications and possibilities of recent new media technologies." -Ronald E. Day! Indiana University at Bloomington"This book proves that critical consideration of the processes of subjectivity belong in the foreground of media! technology and software studies. Vanquishing the shallow presumptions of subjecthood and identity that linger in accounts of social computing! Neal Thomas expands the philosophical space currently available for the investigation of how sociality is constituted and a post-individual subjectivity is structured by a-signifying machinic relations." -Gary Genosko! University of Ontario Institute of Technology Informationen zum Autor Neal Thomas is Assistant Professor of Media and Technology Studies in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. Klappentext This book examines the semiotic effects of protocols and algorithms at work in popular social media systems, bridging philosophical conversations in human-computer interaction (HCI) and information systems (IS) design with contemporary work in critical media, technology and software studies. Zusammenfassung This book examines the semiotic effects of protocols and algorithms at work in popular social media systems, bridging philosophical conversations in human-computer interaction (HCI) and information systems (IS) design with contemporary work in critical media, technology and software studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. On the notion of a formatted subject 2. The epistemically-formatted subject 3. The performatively-formatted subject 4. The signaletically-formatted subject 5. The allagmatically-formatted subject Conclusion: Towards an enunciative informatics ...

Product details

• Authors: Neal Thomas
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.01.2018
• EAN: 9781138719026
• ISBN: 978-1-138-71902-6
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture
• Subjects: Guides; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Media Studies, PHILOSOPHY / General, COMPUTERS / Information Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Philosophy, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Digital lifestyle, Communication Studies, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, information architecture, Information theory, Information technology: general issues, COMPUTERS / Computer Architecture, Information technology: general topics