Network Culture: Politics For the Information Age - Couverture souple

Terranova, Tiziana

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0745317480 ISBN 13 : 9780745317489

Editeur : Pluto Press, 2004

Synopsis

Network Culture A sophisticated argument about how the internet and communication networks impact on politics, democracy, and identity. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In an age of email lists and discussion groups, e-zines and weblogs, bringing together users, consumers, workers and activists from around the globe, what kinds of political subjectivity are emerging? What kinds of politics become possible in a time of information overload and media saturation? What structures of power and control operate over a self-organising system like the internet? In this highly original new work, Tiziana Terranova investigates the political dimension of the network culture in which we now live, and explores what the new forms of communication and organisation might mean for our understanding of power and politics. Terranova engages with key concepts and debates in cultural theory and cultural politics, using examples from media culture, computing, network dynamics, and internet activism within the anti-capitalist and anti-war movements. Network Culture concludes that the nonlinear network dynamics that link different modes of communication at different levels (from local radio to satellite television, from the national press to the internet, from broadcasting to rumours and conspiracy theories) provide the conditions within which another politics can emerge. This other politics, the book suggests, does not entail the production of a new political discourse or ideology, but the invention of micropolitical tactics able to stand up to new forms of social control.

Biographie de l'auteur

Tiziana Terranova teaches the sociology of media and culture in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex. She has published various pamphlets and essays on digital cultures, in Italian and English.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Pluto Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0745317480
• ISBN 13: 9780745317489
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192