Off the network : disrupting the digital world

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...

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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
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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
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