Digitized Lives: Culture, Power and Social Change in the Internet Era

ISBN-13: 9781138309548 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 312 str.

T. V. Reed

Opis

This second edition includes important updates on mobile and social media, examining how new platforms and devices have altered how we interact with digital technologies.

 

Spis treści

Preface: Why Buy this Book?

Chapter 1: How Do We Make Sense of Digitizing Cultures? Some Ways of Thinking through the Culture–Technology Matrix

Chapter 2 How is the Digital World Made? The Designer/Worker/User Production Cycle

Chapter 3: What’s New About Digitized Identities? Mobile Bodies, Online Disguise, Cyberbullying and Virtual Communities

Chapter 4: Has Digital Culture Killed Privacy? Social Media, Governments and Digitized Surveillance

Chapter 5: Is Everybody Equal Online? Digitizing Gender, Ethnicity, Dis/Ability and Sexual Orientation

Chapter 6: Sexploration and/or Sexploitation? Digitizing Desire

Chapter 7: Tools for Democracy or Authoritarianism? Digitized Politics and the Post-Truth Era

Chapter 8: Are Digital Games Making Us Violent, or Will They Save the World? Virtual Play, Real Impact

Chapter 9: Are Students Getting Dumber as Their Phones Get Smarter? E-Learning, Edutainment, and the Future of Knowledge Sharing

Chapter 10: Who in the World is Online? Digital Inclusions and Exclusions

Conclusion: Will Robots and AIs Take Over the World? Hope, Hype and Possible Digitized Futures

Works Cited

Glossary

Index