Digital Culture & Society (DCS) Vol. 9, Issue 2/2023: Frictions: Conflicts, Controversies and Design Alternatives in Digital Valuation

With the proliferation of smart devices such as smartphones, smart watches, and smart speakers as well as the ongoing push toward smart cities, humans, technologies, and environments have become entangled in increasingly complex yet seemingly frictionless infrastructures of datafication and computation. A seemingly frictionless user experience, however, conceals the contradictions, power asymmetries, and polarisations that shape our digital cultures. This issue of Digital Culture & Society takes the notion of frictions as a starting point for a situated analysis of our digital present. Frictions are sites where criticism is sparked, value conflicts are negotiated, and design alternatives are explored. By bringing together research from media studies, science and technology studies (STS), and sociology, this issue begins to synthesise and systematise the structural inconsistencies that frictions expose.

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• Assisted by: Marcus Burkhardt (Editor), Tatjana Seitz (Editor), Carsten Ochs (Editor), Jonathan Kropf (Editor), Roberto Simanowski (Editor), Jens Schröter (Editor), Irina Kaldrack (Editor), Dr Mark Coté (Editor), Lev Manovich (Editor), Dominic Pettman (Editor), Marie-Laure Ryan (Editor), Astrid Ensslin (Editor), Colin Cremin (Editor), Janet H. Murray (Editor), Geoffrey Winthrop-Young (Editor), Nanna Verhoeff (Editor), Julian Rohrhuber (Editor), Tamar Sharon (Editor), Nathaniel Tkacz (Editor), Orit Halpern (Editor), Sonia Fizek (Editor), Federica Frabetti (Editor), Mirko Tobias Schäfer (Editor), R. Trebor Scholz (Editor), Denisa Kera (Editor), Dr Maria Bakardjieva (Editor), Professor José van Dijck (Editor), Professor Sean Cubitt (Editor), Professor Lisa Parks (Editor), Professor Rita Raley (Editor), Professor Richard Rogers (Editor), Dr David Berry (Editor), Delia Dumitrica (Editor), Professor Jean Burgess (Editor), Professor Sally Wyatt (Editor), AttÚ Professor Jussi Parikka (Editor), Dr Brian Beaton (Editor), Carsten Ochs et al (Editor)
• Publisher: Transcript
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 29.01.2025
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general)
• EAN: 9783837663587
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-6358-7
• Pages: 234
• Illustrations: 10 SW-Abb., 6 Farbabb.
• Dimensions (packing): 15.5 x 1.8 x 24 cm
• Weight (packing): 415 g
• Series: Digital Culture & Society > 17
• Subjects: Pädagogik, Internet, Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Photography & photographs, Education, Architecture, Media, Media Studies, Media Theory, Sociology, Popular Culture, Journal, Digital Media, Society, Sociology of Media, Cultural Studies, PHILOSOPHY / General, Digital Transformation, Social Theory, Television, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Social interaction, HISTORY / Social History, Philosophy, Decorative arts, Social & cultural history, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, DESIGN / History & Criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, knowledge, Communities, Politics & government, Social & political philosophy, Political structure & processes, Industrial / commercial art & design, Literary studies: general, Philosophy & theory of education, Design, industrielle und kommerzielle Kunst, Illustration, Graphic novels: history & criticism, Impact of science & technology on society, History of engineering & technology, digitization, Ethical & social aspects of IT, Urban communities, TV & society, Sociology and anthropology, Electronic, holographic & video art, Film Theory & Criticism, Drawing and drawings, Friction, Philosophy and psychology, Philosophy and theory, Culture and institutions, The political process, Political science (Politics and government), Literature (Belles-lettres) and rhetoric, History, geographic treatment, biography, Data processing and computer science, Public performances, Computer art (Digital art), Photography, computer art, cinematography, videography, Digital Valuation