The Quirks of Digital Culture
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The Quirks of Digital Culture by David Beer
This book explores the quirks of digital culture. Through a series of short punchy chapters, it uses these quirks as momentary glimpses into the hidden dynamics of our swirling, highly mediated and often unfathomable cultural experiences.
'One of Britain's sharpest observers of the internet' -- Peter Pomerantsev, Senior Fellow, LSE and the Author of 'Nothing is True and Everything is Possible, Adventures in Modern Russia'
As digital culture has been lifted on to media platforms, everyday experiences are full of quirks, says Beer, and often unnoticed, these quirks accumulate and occupy daily experiencesHe suggests that it is possible that they can be the means by which people come, in aggregate, to know the world and to have sense of their place in it. He deals with just a few of those quirks, only scratching the surface, he says, only touching upon the underpinning patterns and dynamics. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. -- Annotation ©2019 * (protoview.com) *
As digital culture has been lifted on to media platforms, everyday experiences are full of quirks, says Beer, and often unnoticed, these quirks accumulate and occupy daily experiencesHe suggests that it is possible that they can be the means by which people come, in aggregate, to know the world and to have sense of their place in it. He deals with just a few of those quirks, only scratching the surface, he says, only touching upon the underpinning patterns and dynamics. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. -- Annotation ©2019 * (protoview.com) *
"By revealing the intricacies and complexities of contemporary culture, this book opens up new ways to understand and interpret everyday experiences and does so in a way that is accessible even in today’s attention-poor environment. In a nutshell, this is a highly recommended book."
-- LSE Review of Books
David Beer is Professor of Sociology at the University of York, UK. He is the author of Georg Simmel’s Concluding Thoughts (2019), The Data Gaze (2018), Metric Power (2016), Punk Sociology (2014), Popular Culture and New Media: The Politics of Circulation (2013) and New Media: The Key Concepts (2008, with Nicholas Gane) and is the editor of The Social Power of Algorithms (2018).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781787699168 |
| ISBN 10 | 1787699161 |
| Title | The Quirks of Digital Culture |
| Author | David Beer |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Emerald Publishing Limited |
| Year published | 2019-10-11 |
| Number of pages | 120 |
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