18 títulos para "Meson Press Eg"

Digital Activism in Asia Reader

Shah, Nishant;Sneha, Puthiya Purayil;Chattapadhyay, Sumandro

The digital turn might as well be marked as an Asian turn. From flash-mobs in Taiwan to feminist mobilisations in India, from hybrid media strategies of Syrian activists to cultural protests in Thailand, we see the emergence of political acts that transform the citizen from being a beneficiary of ch...

30 Years after Les Immatériaux

Hui, Yuk;Broeckmann, Andreas

In 1985, the French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard curated a groundbreaking exhibition called Les Immatériaux at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The exhibition showed how telecommunication technologies were beginning to impact every aspect of life. At the same time, it was a material demonstration...

Politik der Mikroentscheidungen

Sprenger, Florian

Ob beim Aufrufen einer Webseite, beim Versenden einer E-Mail oder beim Hochfrequenz-Börsenhandel: Auf ihrem Weg durch die Weiten digitaler Netze durchqueren Bits zahlreiche Knoten, an denen eine Reihe von Mikroentscheidungen getroffen werden. Diese Entscheidungen betreffen den besten Pfad zum Ziel...

The Political Structure of UK Broadcasting 1949-1999

Elstein, David

In 1999 David Elstein delivered a lecture series examining the evolvement of UK broadcasting policy from 1949 to 1999. His sharp analysis is a valuable contribution to the post-war development of the British broadcasting system and unfolds many topical issues in current media policy debates. For ma...

Ç?KOLOGIEN DER ERDE

FRIEDRICH, ALEXANDER/LÇÔFFLER, PETRA/SPRENGER, FLORIAN

Library Life

Krentel, Friedolin;Barthel, Katja;Brand, Sebastian

Wie und wo entsteht kulturwissenschaftliches Wissen? Im Kopf? In der Bibliothek? Am Schreibtisch? Inspiriert von den Laborstudien der Science & Technology Studies ging das Autor*innen-Kollektiv des vorliegenden Buchs diesen Fragen nach. Aufgesucht wurden die pers”nlichen Schreiborte von Kulturwissen...

Life and Technology

Barthélémy, Jean-Hugues

The philosophy of Gilbert Simondon has reinvigorated contemporary thinking about biological and technological beings. In this book, Jean-Hugues Barthélémy takes up Simondon's thought and shows how life and technology are connected by a transversal theme: individuation. In the first essay, Barthélémy...

Interventions in Digital Cultures

Caygill, Howard;Leeker, Martina;Schulze, Tobias

How to intervene? Interventions are in vogue in digital cultures as forms of critique or political actions into public spheres. By engaging in social, political, and economic contexts, interventions attempt to interrupt and change situations?often with artistic means. This volume maps methods of int...

Profile

Degeling, Martin;Othmer, Julius;Weich, Andreas

Profile haben Konjunktur. Seit der Verbreitung von Social Networking Sites sind sie allt?glicher Ort der Selbstdarstellung. Doch die Praktiken und Techniken der Profilierung sind keineswegs neu. Schon lange beschreiben Profile potentielle Straft?terInnen. Nun bestimmen sie auch die potentielle Kredi...

There is no Software, there are just Services

Kaldrack, Irina;Leeker, Martina

Is software dead? Services like Google, Dropbox, Adobe Creative Cloud, or Social Media apps are all-pervasive in our digital media landscape. This marks the (re)emergence of the service paradigm that challenges traditional business and license models as well as modes of media creation and use. The s...

Rethinking Gamification

Fuchs, Mathias;Fizek, Sonia;Ruffino, Paolo

Gamification marks a major change to everyday life. It describes the permeation of economic, political, and social contexts by game-elements such as awards, rule structures, and interfaces that are inspired by video games. Sometimes the term is reduced to the implementation of points, badges, and le...

The Cyborg

Caronia, Antonio

Born on the pages of science fiction comics in the 1920s and 30s, the cyborg lives in popular imagination. As hero of the cyberpunk epic, in its brief but intense history, the cyborg has followed and anticipated the rapport and conflict between man and machine. In the post-Fordist era of digital ne...