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Off the network : disrupting the digital world / Ulises Ali Mejias.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Electronic mediations ; volume 41 | Electronic mediationsPublisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013Description: xvii, 193 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780816679003 (pb : alk. paper)
  • 0816679002 (pb : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.3
LOC classification:
  • HM 742 M516o 2013
Contents:
Introduction -- Thinking the network. The network as method for organizing the world -- The privatization of social life -- Computers as socializing tools -- Acting inside and outside the network -- Unthinking the network. Strategies for unmapping networks -- Proximity and conflict -- Collaboration and freedom -- Intensifying the network. The limits of liberation technologies -- The outside of networks as method for acting in the world.
Summary: This book presents an examination of how the hidden logic of the Internet, social media, and the digital network is changing users' understanding of the world - and why that should worry us. This book suggests how we might begin to rethink the logic of the network and question its ascendancy.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) HM 742 M516o 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000163070

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-188) and index.

Introduction -- Thinking the network. The network as method for organizing the world -- The privatization of social life -- Computers as socializing tools -- Acting inside and outside the network -- Unthinking the network. Strategies for unmapping networks -- Proximity and conflict -- Collaboration and freedom -- Intensifying the network. The limits of liberation technologies -- The outside of networks as method for acting in the world.

This book presents an examination of how the hidden logic of the Internet, social media, and the digital network is changing users' understanding of the world - and why that should worry us. This book suggests how we might begin to rethink the logic of the network and question its ascendancy.

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