Off the network : disrupting the digital world / Ulises Ali Mejias.
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TextSeries: Electronic mediations ; volume 41Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 193 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781452948355 (ebook) :Subject(s): Online social networks | Social networks | OrganizationAdditional physical formats: No titleDDC classification: 302.3 LOC classification: HM742 | .M455 2013Online resources: Minnesota scholarship online Summary: The digital world profoundly shapes how we work and consume and also how we play, socialise, create identities, and engage in politics and civic life. Indeed, we are so enmeshed in digital networks that it is hard to conceive of them from the outside or to imagine an alternative, let alone defy their seemingly inescapable power and logic. Is it possible to disconnect from the digital network - and why might we want to? This book offers an 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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The digital world profoundly shapes how we work and consume and also how we play, socialise, create identities, and engage in politics and civic life. Indeed, we are so enmeshed in digital networks that it is hard to conceive of them from the outside or to imagine an alternative, let alone defy their seemingly inescapable power and logic. Is it possible to disconnect from the digital network - and why might we want to? This book offers an 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.
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