Mejias, Ulises Ali  <br/><br/>
Off the network :  disrupting the digital world / 
Ulises Ali Mejias. 
 - xvii, 193 pages ;  22 cm. 
 - Electronic mediations ;  volume 41 .
 - Electronic mediations ;  .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-188) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780816679003 (pb : alk. paper) 0816679002 (pb : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2013010193 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Online social networks.<br/>Social networks.<br/>Redes sociales<br/>Redes sociales en línea
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HM 742  / M516o 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>302.3