Network Culture
Subtitle: Politics for the Information Age
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: July 22, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780745317489
Subjects: Communication Studies; Cultural studies; Impact of computing & IT on society; Public Affairs & Administration; Information society; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; Sociology; Social aspects; Public Policy - Social Policy; Political Science / Social Policy; Information Technology; General; Political aspects; Computers - General Information
First sentence: This is a book about (among other things) information and entropy, cybernetics and thermodynamics, mailing lists and talk shows, the electronic Ummah and chaos theory, web rings and web logs, mobile robots, cellular automata and the New Economy, open-source programming and reality TV, masses and multitudes, communication management and information warfare, networked political movements, open architecture, image flows and the interplay of affects and meanings in the constitution of the common.