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Patterns : Theory of the Digital Society.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nassehi, Armin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Information society.
- Cybernetics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (284 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newark : Polity Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- This book, 'Theory of the Digital Society' by Armin Nassehi, explores the foundational relationship between digital technology and modern society's structure. It delves into how digital technologies shape societal patterns and behaviors, emphasizing the persistent and integral nature of digitality. The author examines various phenomena such as data, cybernetics, privacy, and the impact of the internet as mass media. Through empirical social research, Nassehi addresses the complexities and idiosyncrasies of digital culture, aiming to understand why digital technologies have become so deeply embedded in contemporary society. The book targets scholars and students in sociology and cultural studies, offering a theoretical framework for analyzing digital transformation. Generated by AI.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface to the German edition
- Preface to the English edition
- Introduction
- How to think about digitalization
- A technological–sociological intuition
- Early technology pushes
- Original and copy
- Productively wrong and predetermined breaking point
- 1 The Reference Problem of Digitalization
- Functionalist questions
- Connecting data: offline
- What is the problem?
- The discomfort with digital culture
- The digital discovery of ‘society’
- Empirical social research as pattern recognition
- ‘Society’ as digitalization material
- The cyborg as a means of overcoming society?
- 2 The Idiosyncrasy of the Digital
- The inexact exactness of the world
- The particular idiosyncrasy of data
- Cybernetics and the feedback of information
- The digitalization of communication
- The dynamic of closure
- The self-referentiality of the data world
- 3 Multiple Duplications of the World
- Data as observers Generated by AI.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 1-5095-6143-9
- OCLC:
- 1433206964
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