Inhuman Networks

Social Media and the Archaeology of Connection

Dr. Grant Bollmer (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2016
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-1615-9 (ISBN)

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Social media’s connectivity is often thought to be a manifestation of human nature buried until now, revealed only through the diverse technologies of the participatory internet. Rather than embrace this view, Inhuman Networks: Social Media and the Archaeology of Connection argues that the human nature revealed by social media imagines network technology and data as models for behavior online. Covering a wide range of historical and interdisciplinary subjects, Grant Bollmer examines the emergence of “the network” as a model for relation in the 1700s and 1800s and follows it through marginal, often forgotten articulations of technology, biology, economics, and the social. From this history, Bollmer examines contemporary controversies surrounding social media, extending out to the influence of network models on issues of critical theory, politics, popular science, and neoliberalism. By moving through the past and present of network media, Inhuman Networks demonstrates how contemporary network culture unintentionally repeats debates over the limits of Western modernity to provide an idealized future where “the human” is interchangeable with abstract, flowing data connected through well-managed, distributed networks.

Grant Bollmer is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at North Carolina State University, where he teaches in the Department of Communication and the PhD Program in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media, and an Honorary Associate of the Department of Media and Communications at The University of Sydney.

1. Introduction: Connectivity, Flow, Citizenship
Part One: Network Archaeologies
2. Biology: Vital Technologies, Anatomical Networks
3. Society: Railroads, Red Scares, and Racism
4. Economy: Banking on Connection
Part Two: Nodal Citizens
5. Death: Living Forever as Automated Data
6. Labor: Giving Life to (Mobile) Fixed Capital
7. Truth: The Politics of Performing the Total Self
Part Three: Beyond Social Media, or, a World Without People
8. Contagion: The Inevitable Failure of Connectivity
9. (Political) Theory: How to Disempower Friends and Pathologize People
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.07.2016
Zusatzinfo	20 bw illus
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	558 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	1-5013-1615-X / 150131615X
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-1615-9 / 9781501316159
Zustand	Neuware