02779oam 2200505z- 450 991034084280332120230817185322.09781912656097(PDF)1912656094(PDF)9781912656103(EPub)1912656108(EPub)9781912656202(paperback)1912656205(paperback)9781912656080(hardback)1912656086(hardback)(CKB)4900000000504245(EXLCZ)99490000000050424520191103h20192019 fy 0engurm|#---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDigital objects, digital subjects interdisciplinary perspectives on capitalism, labour and politics in the age of big data /edited by David Chandler and Christian FuchsLondon, England :University of Westminster Press,2019.©20191 online resource (iv, 242 pages) PDF, digital file(s)Print version: 9781912656080 Includes bibliographical references and index.This book explores activism, research and critique in the age of digital subjects and objects and Big Data capitalism after a digital turn said to have radically transformed our political futures. Optimists assert that the ‘digital’ promises: new forms of community and ways of knowing and sensing, innovation, participatory culture, networked activism, and distributed democracy. Pessimists argue that digital technologies have extended domination via new forms of control, networked authoritarianism and exploitation, dehumanization and the surveillance society. Leading international scholars present varied interdisciplinary assessments of such claims—in theory and via dialogue—and of the digital’s impact on society, the potentials, pitfalls, limits and ideologies, of digital activism. They reflect on whether computational social science, digital humanities and ubiquitous datafication lead to digital positivism that threatens critical research or lead to new horizons in theory and society.Political activistsInternet and activismInternetPolitical aspectsPolitical participationTechnological innovationsPolitical activists.Internet and activism.InternetPolitical aspects.Political participationTechnological innovations.303.4834Chandler David1962-Fuchs Christian1976-UkMaJRU9910340842803321Digital objects, digital subjects2170354UNINA