TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berry,David M.
TI  - Critical theory and the digital
SN  - 9781501310966 (pbk.) :
AV  - HM851 
U1  - 306.46 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury
KW  - Digital media
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Critical theory
KW  - Media Studies
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Media studies
KW  - thema
KW  - Political science & theory
KW  - Impact of science & technology on society
N1  - Originally published: 2014; Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index; Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: From Culture Industry to Computational Industries -- Chapter 3: The Softwarization of Society -- Chapter 4: Computational Ontologies -- Chapter 5: The Reification of Everyday Life -- Chapter 6: Computational Aesthetics -- Chapter 7: Critical Praxis and the Computational -- Chapter 8: Towards a Critical Theory of the Digital -- Bibliography -- Endnotes -- Index
N2  - Offering an original analysis of the digital revolution and the role it plays in today's society, this book rearticulates critical theory by engaging it with the challenges of our contemporary world; This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume offers an original analysis of the role of the digital in today's society. It rearticulates critical theory by engaging it with the challenges of the digital revolution to show how the digital is changing the ways in which we lead our politics, societies, economies, media, and even private lives. In particular, the work examines how the enlightenment values embedded within the culture and materiality of digital technology can be used to explain the changes that are occurring across society. Critical Theory and the Digital draws from the critical concepts developed by critical theorists to demonstrate how the digital needs to be understood within a dialectic of potentially democratizing and totalizing technical power. By relating critical theory to aspects of a code-based digital world and the political economy that it leads to, the book introduces the importance of the digital code in the contemporary world to researchers in the field of politics, sociology, globalization and media studies
ER  -