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The Culture of Connectivity
Social media penetrate our lives: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and many other platforms define daily habits of communication and creative production. This book studies the rise of social media, providing both a historical and a critical analysis of the emergence of major platforms in the context of a rapidly changing ecosystem of connective media. Author José van Dijck offers an analytical prism that can be used to view techno-cultural as well as socio-economic aspects of this transformation as well as to examine shared ideological principles between major social media platforms. This fascinating study will appeal to all readers interested in social media.
Mobile Technologies
In light of emerging forms of software, interfaces, cultures of uses, and media practices associated with mobile media, this collection investigates the various ways in which mobile media is developing in different cultural, linguistic, social, and national settings. Specifically, contributors consider the promises and politics of mobile media and its role in the dynamic social and gender relations configured in the boundaries between public and private spheres. The collection is genuinely interdisciplinary, as well as international in its range, with contributors and studies from China, Japan, Korea, Italy, Norway, France, Belgium, Britain, and Australia.
Arctic Archives
This pioneering volume explores the Arctic as an important and highly endangered archive of knowledge about natural as well as human history of the anthropocene. Focusing on the Arctic as an archive means to investigate it not only as a place of human history and memory – of Arctic exploring, ›conquering‹ and colonizing –, but to take into account also the specific environmental conditions of the circumpolar region: ice and permafrost. These have allowed a huge natural archive to emerge, offering rich sources for natural scientists and historians alike. Examining the debate on the notion of (›natural‹) archive, the cultural semantics and historicity of the meaning of concepts like ›warm‹, ›cold‹, ›freezing‹ and ›melting‹ as well as various works of literature, art and science on Arctic topics, this volume brings together literary scholars, historians of knowledge and philosophy, art historians, media theorists and archivologists.
Bits of Life
Since World War II, the biological and technological have been fusing and merging in new ways, resulting in the loss of a clear distinction between the two. This entanglement of biology with technology isn't new, but the pervasiveness of that integration is staggering, as is the speed at which the two have been merging in recent decades. As this process permeates more of everyday life, the urgent necessity arises to rethink both biology and technology. Indeed, the human body can no longer be regarded either as a bounded entity or as a naturally given and distinct part of an unquestioned whole. Bits of Life assumes a posthuman definition of the body. It is grounded in questions about today's biocultures, which pertain neither to humanist bodily integrity nor to the anthropological assumption that human bodies are the only ones that matter. Editors Anneke Smelik and Nina Lykke aid in mapping changes and transformations and in striking a middle road between the metaphor and the material. In exploring current reconfigurations of bodies and embodied subjects, the contributors pursue a technophilic, yet critical, path while articulating new and thoroughly appraised ethical standards.
The Digital Self
In an era where our lives are increasingly intertwined with digital platforms, The Digital Self: Redefining Identity in the Age of Social Media, Virtual Worlds, and AI explores the profound impact of technology on self-perception, social interaction, and personal identity. This book delves into the evolution of the "digital self," examining how social media, online communities, and virtual spaces have reshaped the way we present ourselves and engage with the world. Blending psychological theories with real-world examples, this book unpacks the dynamics of online self-expression, social validation, and digital reputation. It navigates the tensions between authenticity and curation, the pressures of social comparison, and the shifting boundaries between our real and virtual identities. For anyone curious about how technology influences human behavior or for those looking to understand their own digital presence more deeply The Digital Self: Redefining Identity in the Age of Social Media, Virtual Worlds, and AI is a thought-provoking and insightful journey into the future of identity in a hyper-connected world.
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Verfremdete Schrift
In der Gegenwartsliteratur wird Schriftgestaltung zur Basis für poetische Verfahren: Verfremdung wird typographisch, Typographie wird verfremdet. In der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur trifft man seit der Jahrtausendwende immer häufiger auf typographisch auffällige Romane: Die Schrift wird vergrößert oder verkleinert, Zeilen verlaufen kreuz und quer über die Seiten, einzelne Wörter oder ganze Passagen werden getilgt oder durchgestrichen, es tauchen Wörter in anderen Schriftarten und Schriftzeichen anderer Schriftsysteme oder Alphabete auf. In diesen Fällen können die Schrift und ihre Materialität nicht länger übersehen werden, die Typographie wird zu einem integralen Besta...
Bioethics in the Age of New Media
Joanna Zylinska examines the ethical challenges presented by technology to the allegedly sacrosant idea of the human & makes a proposal for a new ethics of life rooted in the philosophy of alterity.
