TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berry,David M.
TI  - Critical theory and the digital
T2  - Critical theory and contemporary society
SN  - 9781441166395
AV  - HM851 B534 C 2014
KW  - Information society
KW  - Information technology
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Digital media
KW  - Critical theory
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
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