Off the network : disrupting the digital world

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mejias, Ulises Ali, Author.

Series:

Electronic mediations Off the network

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Online social networks.

Social networks.

Organization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] University of Minnesota Press 2013

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Off the Network is a fresh and authoritative examination of how the hidden logic of the Internet, social media, and the digital network is changing users' understanding of the world--and why that should worry us. Ulises Ali Mejias suggests how we might begin to rethink the logic of the network and question its ascendancy.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I. THINKING THE NETWORK

1 The Network as Method for Organizing the World

2 The Privatization of Social Life

3 Computers as Socializing Tools

4 Acting Inside and Outside the Network

PART II. UNTHINKING THE NETWORK

5 Strategies for Disrupting Networks

6 Proximity and Conflict

7 Collaboration and Freedom

PART III. INTENSIFYING THE NETWORK

8 The Limits of Liberation Technologies

9 The Outside of Networks as a Method for Acting in the World

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-8166-8452-9