Digital Media Metaphors (eBook, ePUB)

A Critical Introduction
Redaktion: Farkas, Johan; Maloney, Marcus

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together leading scholars from media studies and digital sociology, this edited volume provides a comprehensive introduction to digital media metaphors, unpacking their power and limitations.This unique collection will interest students and scholars of digital media and media and communication studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040155820
• Artikelnr.: 72276423

Autorenporträt

Johan Farkas is Assistant Professor in Media Studies at the University of Copenhagen. He is author of Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy: Mapping the Politics of Falsehood (Routledge, 2019). Marcus Maloney is Assistant Professor in Sociology at the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University. His most recent book is Gender, Masculinity and Video Gaming: Analysing Reddit's r/gaming Community (2019).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Why Digital Media Metaphors Matter Part I: Infrastructure
2. Cloud Computing: Infrastructure's Alibi 3. Platform: A Tapestry of
Meanings and Metaphors 4. Frontier: Drifting Towards the Digital Commons 5.
Digital Town Square: From Participatory Culture to Free Speech Absolutism
Part II: Content 6. Filter Bubble: The Dumbest Metaphor on the Internet? 7.
Data as the New Oil: Extractivist Data Metaphors 8. Rabbit Hole: Creating
the Concept of Algorithmic Radicalization 9. Information Warfare: The
Blurred Boundaries of the Digital Trenches Part III: Users 10. Toxic:
Critiquing an Infectious Error 11. Digital Native: The Myth of the
Tech-Savvy Youth 12. Troll: The Problem with Digital Tricksters and
Monsters