Disorder and the Disinformation Society
The Social Dynamics of Information, Networks and Software
This book is the first general social analysis that seriously considers the daily experience of information disruption and software failure within contemporary Western society. Through an investigation of informationalism, defined as a contemporary form of capitalism, it describes the social processes producing informational disorder. While most social theory sees disorder as secondary, pathological or uninteresting, this book takes disordering processes as central to social life. The book engages with theories of information society which privilege information order, offering a strong counterpoint centred on disinformation. Disorder and the…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Goodman, James / Zowghi, Didar / Da Rimini, Francesca
- ISBN: 978-1-317-43639-3
- EAN: 9781317436393
- Produktnummer: 18400163
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 310 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'301 KB
- Abbildungen: 12 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
Jonathan Paul Marshall is an anthropologist and senior research associate at the University of Technology Sydney. James Goodman conducts research into social change and global politics and is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology, Sydney. Didar Zowghi is Professor of Software Engineering, and the Director of the research centre for Human-Centred Technology Design (HCTD) at the Faculty of Engineering and IT at UTS. Francesca da Rimini is an Honorary Associate at the University of Technology, Sydney (Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology).
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