Off the network : disrupting the digital world

• VerfasserIn: Mejias, Ulises Ali
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : University of Minnesota Press, 2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Electronic mediations Off the network
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 pages)
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Off the Network is a fresh and authoritative examination of how the hidden logic of the Internet, social media, and the digital network is changing users' understanding of the world--and why that should worry us. Ulises Ali Mejias suggests how we might begin to rethink the logic of the network and question its ascendancy.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. THINKING THE NETWORK -- 1 The Network as Method for Organizing the World -- 2 The Privatization of Social Life -- 3 Computers as Socializing Tools -- 4 Acting Inside and Outside the Network -- PART II. UNTHINKING THE NETWORK -- 5 Strategies for Disrupting Networks -- 6 Proximity and Conflict -- 7 Collaboration and Freedom -- PART III. INTENSIFYING THE NETWORK -- 8 The Limits of Liberation Technologies -- 9 The Outside of Networks as a Method for Acting in the World -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.