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: Dr Maria Bakardjieva (Editor), Dr Brian Beaton (Editor), Dr David Berry (Editor), Professor Jean Burgess (Editor), Marcus Burkhardt (Editor), Dr Mark Coté (Editor), Colin Cremin (Editor), Professor Sean Cubitt (Editor), Professor José van Dijck (Editor), Delia Dumitrica (Editor), Astrid Ensslin (Editor), Sonia Fizek (Editor), Federica Frabetti (Editor), Orit Halpern (Editor), Irina Kaldrack (Editor), Denisa Kera (Editor), Jonathan Kropf (Editor), Lev Manovich (Editor), Janet H. Murray (Editor), Carsten Ochs (Editor), AttÚ Professor Jussi Parikka (Editor), Professor Lisa Parks (Editor), Dominic Pettman (Editor), Professor Rita Raley (Editor), Professor Richard Rogers (Editor), Julian Rohrhuber (Editor), Marie-Laure Ryan (Editor), Mirko Tobias Schäfer (Editor), R. Trebor Scholz (Editor), Jens Schröter (Editor), Tatjana Seitz (Editor), Tamar Sharon (Editor), Roberto Simanowski (Editor), Nathaniel Tkacz (Editor), Nanna Verhoeff (Editor), Geoffrey Winthrop-Young (Editor), Professor Sally Wyatt (Editor)
• Publisher: Transcript
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.01.2025
• EAN: 9783837663587
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-6358-7
• No. of pages: 234
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 18 mm x 240 mm
• Weight: 415 g
• Illustrations: 10 SW-Abb., 6 Farbabb.
• Series: Digital Culture & Society
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science