The Lonelinesses of Modernity : A Theory of Modernization as an Age of Isolation / / by Denis Newiak

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910921009203321
• Autore: Newiak Denis
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Wiesbaden : , : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024
• ISBN: 9783658401443; 3658401443
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2024.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (0 pages)
• Disciplina: 302.23
• Soggetti: Mass media and culture; Sociology; Culture; Media Culture; Sociological Theory; Sociology of Culture
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: 1. On the concept of modernity -- 2. communities of the pre-modern era -- 3. the onset of modernization -- 4. disorientation and abandonment: the lonelinesses of the early modern era -- 5. lonely time diagnoses of the industrial high modern era -- 6. the lonelinesses of the late modern era -- 7. life in the network society and the escalation of the late modern lonelinesses -- 8. has the post-modern era already begun?.
• Sommario/riassunto: Modernity presents itself as an age of increasing social disintegration: secularization and rationalization, urbanization and globalization, individualization and digitalization make it difficult for communities today. Modernity comes with desirable promises that make it attractive, but it does not come free: Its price is escalating modern loneliness. Denis Newiak tells a cultural history of modernization that, from industrialization to the late-modern network society, produces ever new and harsher experiences of loneliness. The author Denis Newiak is a media, film and television scholar, teaches media and communication ; theory at various universities and conducts research on expressions of loneliness in modern societies This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book would look stylistically different from a conventional translation.