David Toews

How Digital Social Life Matters (eBook, ePUB)

New Frames for Social and Cultural Analysis

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on two concepts that were central to modernism and continue to be important, albeit in different ways, this book explores the nature of the simple and the complex, and the relationship that exists between them.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040267646
• Artikelnr.: 72307311

Autorenporträt

David Toews received his PhD in Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Warwick and teaches in the department of Communication and Information Studies at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He is the author of Social Life and Political Life in the Era of Digital Media, and Gabriel Tarde: The Future of the Artificial.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: Pluralism in a dangerous time
Introduction
1. Big Data: The New Nature
2. Signs: How the Simple is Playing a New Role in Culture
3. Objects: How Neomonadology Offers a Framework for Science
4. Media: How the Digital Produces Both Stories and Voids of Meaning
5. Society: How Simples Anchor Complexity and Permit Meaning to Travel
Between Contexts
6. Politics: The Divide between Notions of Totalizing Politics and
Diminishing Politics
7. Reality: Breaking the Rythms of Nature and Artifice
Contemplation I: We find it hard to live the life we need to live
Contemplation II: Wonder as a common root of science and global
techno-culture
8. AI: Reality Extension Technology
Conclusion