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Autore: | Fuller Matthew |
Titolo: | Evil media / / Matthew Fuller and Andrew Goffey |
Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Massachusetts, : The MIT Press, ©2012 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
Disciplina: | 006.7/54 |
Soggetto topico: | Information society |
Social media | |
Social networks | |
Soggetto non controllato: | DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/New Media Theory |
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies | |
PHILOSOPHY/Ethics & Bioethics | |
Altri autori: | GoffeyAndrew |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Sommario/riassunto: | A philosophical manual of media power for the network age. |
"Evil Media develops a philosophy of media power that extends the concept of media beyond its tried and trusted use in the games of meaning, symbolism, and truth. It addresses the gray zones in which media exist as corporate work systems, algorithms and data structures, twenty-first century self-improvement manuals, and pharmaceutical techniques. Evil Media invites the reader to explore and understand the abstract infrastructure of the present day. From search engines to flirting strategies, from the value of institutional stupidity to the malicious minutiae of databases, this book shows how the devil is in the details. The title takes the imperative "Don't be evil" and asks, what would be done any differently in contemporary computational and networked media were that maxim reversed. Media here are about much more and much less than symbols, stories, information, or communication: media do things. They incite and provoke, twist and bend, leak and manage. In a series of provocative stratagems designed to be used, Evil Media sets its reader an ethical challenge: either remain a transparent intermediary in the networks and chains of communicative power or become oneself an active, transformative medium."--Publisher. | |
Titolo autorizzato: | Evil media |
ISBN: | 0-262-30440-6 |
1-283-57459-4 | |
9786613887047 | |
0-262-30532-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910785538403321 |
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