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- Digital Objects, Digital Subjects: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Capitalism, Labour and Politics in the Age of Big Data
- Book
- 2019
- Published by: University of Westminster Press
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This book explores activism, research and critique in the age of digital subjects and objects and Big Data capitalism after a digital turn said to have radically transformed our political futures. Optimists assert that the ‘digital’ promises: new forms of community and ways of knowing and sensing, innovation, participatory culture, networked activism, and distributed democracy. Pessimists argue that digital technologies have extended domination via new forms of control, networked authoritarianism and exploitation, dehumanization and the surveillance society. Leading international scholars present varied interdisciplinary assessments of such claims—in theory and via dialogue—and of the digital’s impact on society, the potentials, pitfalls, limits and ideologies, of digital activism. They reflect on whether computational social science, digital humanities and ubiquitous datafication lead to digital positivism that threatens critical research or lead to new horizons in theory and society.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-ii
- 1 Introduction
- pp. 1-20
- Section I Digital Capitalism and Big Data Capitalism
- 7 Posthumanism as a Spectrum
- pp. 95-100
- Section II Digital Labour
- 8 Through the Reproductive Lens
- pp. 103-116
- Section III Digital Politics
- 15 Subjects, Contexts and Modes of Critique
- pp. 183-186
- The Editors and the Contributors
- pp. 223-226
Additional Information
ISBN
9781912656097
Related ISBN(s)
9781912656080
MARC Record
OCLC
1111384745
Pages
245
Launched on MUSE
2019-08-05
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND
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