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Yet even as we grow disenchanted, attempting to resist the digital \"powers that be\" might seem like a losing battle.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSociologist Felicia Wu Song has spent years considering the personal and collective dynamics of digital ecosystems. She combines psychological, neurological, and sociological insights with theological reflection to explore two major questions:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eWhat kind of people are we becoming with personal technologies in hand?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAnd who do we really want to be?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eSong unpacks the soft tyranny of the digital age, including the values embedded in our apps and the economic systems that drive our habits. She then explores pathways of meaningful resistance that can be found in Christian tradition--especially counter-narratives about human worth, embodiment, relationality, and time--and offers practical experiments for individual and communal change.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn our current digital ecologies, small behavioral shifts are not enough to give us freedom. 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The recent surge in online community participation has become a cultural phenomenon enmeshed in ongoing debates about the health of American civil society. But observations about online communities often concentrate on ascertaining the true nature of community and democracy, typically rehearsing familiar communitarian and liberal perspectives. This book seeks to understand the technology on its own terms, focusing on how the technological and organizational configurations of online communities frame our contemporary beliefs and assumptions about community and the individual. It analyzes key structural features of thirty award-winning online community websites to show that while the values of individual autonomy, egalitarianism, and freedom of speech dominate the discursive content of these communities, the practical realities of online life are clearly marked by exclusivity and the demands of commercialization and corporate surveillance. 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