Raymond L. M. Lee

The New Collective Behavior in Digital Society

Connection, Contagion, Control

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The aim of this book is to examine digitalized mass society through the new collective behaviors of people connected by smartphones and other electronic devices. It departs from previous works by rethinking the plausibility of invisible crowds and digital swarms that form in cyberspace to become commercially and politically expedient.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: RLPG/Galleys
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 436g
• ISBN-13: 9781666935721
• ISBN-10: 1666935727
• Artikelnr.: 67990602

Autorenporträt

Raymond L.M. Lee, (U Mass. Amherst) is a non-affiliated researcher of modernity, religion, and mass society.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Crowd after History
Chapter 2. The Power of Virality
Chapter 3. Smartphone Nation
Chapter 4. Sleepwalkers, Inc
Chapter 5. The Data Imperative
Chapter 6. Fear, Terror, and Mass Hysteria
Conclusion
Appendix: The Digital Divine
References
About the Author