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The medieval Internet : power, politics and participation in the digital age / by Jakob Linaa Jensen (Danish School of Media and Journalism, Denmark).
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jensen, Jakob Linaa, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Information technology--Social aspects.
- Information technology.
- Information technology--Political aspects.
- Politics and culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (153 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing, [2020]
- Summary:
- This book sheds light on the world of the Internet and social media and their relationship with surveillance and control, through a historical prism drawn from the Medieval Age.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Half Title Page
- Praise Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- About the Author
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Neo-medievalism
- The Outline of the Book
- Chapter 1-The Middle Ages and Medieval Ways of Living and Thinking
- Medieval Society
- Space in the Middle Ages
- The Medieval Body
- Comparing the Medieval World with the Modern
- Chapter 2-The Medieval and the Contemporary Landscape of Information
- Controlling Information is Controlling the World
- Social Media in the Middle Ages
- The Return of Collective Creativity
- Organisation and Representation of Information
- Technologies for Organising Information - From Glossa Ordinaria to World Wide Web
- The Big Data Ideology - And its Problems
- Chapter 3-The Public - Deliberation, Visibility and Mutual Surveillance
- The Public Sphere
- Expanding the Concept of the Public Sphere
- The Public in the Internet Society
- The Public as Visibility
- The Internet Omnopticon
- The Public Sphere in the Network Society
- Chapter 4-Community and Beyond - Medieval and Modern
- The Return of Community
- Community and the Internet
- Online Communities - An Overview
- Membership, Obligations and Leaving Community
- The Individual and Community
- Community and Space
- Communities of Trust, Superstition and Confession
- Is Online Community Similar to Early, Physical Communities, Like in the Middle Ages?
- Chapter 5-Instruments of Internet Power
- The Concept of Power
- Structural Power in Medieval and Modern Society
- Digital Pillories
- The Verdict of the Digital Mob
- When Governments Raise Pillories
- Online Witch Hunts
- The Boston Bombing
- Communicating Risk and Fear
- Chapter 6-Structures of Internet Power - Algorithms and Platforms
- The Algorithmic Society
- The Algorithmic Bias.
- The Inherent Ideology of Big Data as a Mean of Power and Control
- Reproducing Structural Power: The Quantified Self and the Inherent Discipline and Power
- The Logics of Algorithmic Power
- The End of Agency?
- Chapter 7-Digital Feudalism
- Feudalism
- The Rise and Fall of the Common
- The Internet as a New Common
- The Platform Economy as a New Feudalism
- Control of Networks and Distribution
- Interfaces
- App-ification
- The Control of Content
- From Medieval to Participatory Feudalism
- Chapter 8-Politics and Publics
- Medieval Power and Politics
- The Modern Political Society - Fragmentation and the Struggle for Dominance
- The Nation States and the Decline of Sovereignty in a Networked World
- Corporations and the Conquest of Power
- Civil Society and Democracy Between States and Corporations
- Conclusion: The Return of the Medieval?
- Notes
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781839094149
- 1839094141
- 9781839094125
- 1839094125
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