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Autore: | Sampson Tony D |
Titolo: | Virality [[electronic resource] ] : contagion theory in the age of networks / / Tony D. Sampson |
Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (235 p.) : ill |
Disciplina: | 302/.41 |
Soggetto topico: | Imitation |
Social interaction | |
Crowds | |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-221) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Resuscitating Tarde's diagram in the age of networks -- What spreads? from memes and crowds to the phantom events of desire and belief -- What diagram? toward a political economy of desire and contagion -- From terror contagion to the virality of love -- Tardean hypnosis : capture and escape in the age of contagion. |
Sommario/riassunto: | This title presents a contagion theory fit for the age of networks. Unlike memes and microbial contagions, virality does not restrict itself to biological analogies and medical metaphors. It instead points toward a theory of contagious assemblages, events, and affects. Contagion is not necessarily a positive or negative force of encounter; it is how society comes together and relates. The book argues that a biological knowledge of contagion has been universally distributed by way of the rhetoric of fear in the antivirus industry and other popular discourses surrounding network culture. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Virality |
ISBN: | 1-4529-4681-7 |
0-8166-8292-5 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910785974703321 |
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