02315cam a2200277 i 4500 131121s2014 nyu b 001 0 eng 9781441166395 SDU HM851 B534 C 2014 Berry, David M. 211812 Critical theory and the digital / David M. Berry. ix, 260 pages ; Critical theory and contemporary society Machine generated contents note: -- AcknowledgementsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: From Culture Industry to Computational IndustriesChapter 3: The Softwarization of SocietyChapter 4: Computational OntologiesChapter 5: The Reification of Everyday LifeChapter 6: Computational AestheticsChapter 7: Critical Praxis and the ComputationalChapter 8: Towards a Critical Theory of the DigitalBibliographyEndnotesIndex. YT2025 M09 "This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume offers an original analysis of the role of the digital in today's society. It rearticulates critical theory by engaging it with the challenges of the digital revolution to show how the digital is changing the ways in which we lead our politics, societies, economies, media, and even private lives. In particular, the work examines how the enlightenment values embedded within the culture and materiality of digital technology can be used to explain the changes that are occurring across society.Critical Theory and the Digital draws from the critical concepts developed by critical theorists to demonstrate how the digital needs to be understood within a dialectic of potentially democratizing and totalizing technical power. By relating critical theory to aspects of a code-based digital world and the political economy that it leads to, the book introduces the importance of the digital code in the contemporary world to researchers in the field of politics, sociology, globalization and media studies"-- Information society. Information technology Social aspects. 6234 Digital media Social aspects. Critical theory. 43657 POLITICAL SCIENCE / General. 126952 POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays. 127191 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies. = C.1 SDU GBE lcc 109745 109745 0 0 lcc 0 HM0851 B534 C2014 0 CGB 281953 SDU SDU GEN3 2025-09-15 2 HM851 B534 C 2014 1000371963 2025-09-15 00:00:00 C.1 2025-09-15 GBE