Patterns (eBook)
284 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-5095-6143-8 (ISBN)
Armin Nassehi is Professor of Sociology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
Preface to the English Edition
Preface
Introduction
How to think about digitalisation?
A technological-sociological kind of intuition
Early technology pushes
Original and copy
Productive wrong and predetermined breaking point
1 The Reference Problem of Digitalisation
Functionalist questions
Connecting data - offline
What is the problem?
The uneasiness with the digital culture
The digital discovery of `society´
Empirical social research as the identification of patterns
`Society´ as digitalisation material
The cyborg as a means of overcoming society?
2 The Idiosyncracy of the Digital
The inexact exactness of the world
The particular idiosyncracy of data
Cybernetics and the feedback of information
The digitalisation of communication
The dynamic of closure
The self-referentiality of the world of data
3 Multiple Duplications of the World
Data as observers
Duplications
Disturbances
Transverse data-like duplications
The trace of the trace and discrete duplications
Traces, Patterns, Networks
4 Simplicity and Multiplicity
Medium and form
Coding and programming
The digital simplicity of society
Increased options
Sapere aude as it is reflected in digitalisation
Excursus: Digital Metabolism
5 Functioning Technology
The function of the technological
Digital technology
Communicating technology
The function of functioning
Low-level technology
Demonised technology
Invisible technology and the Turing test
The privilege of making mistakes
6 Learning Technology
Decisions
Abductive machines?
Distributed intelligence?
Anthropological and technological questions
Experiencing and acting machines
Incompleteness, temporariness, systemic paradoxes
Artificial, bodily, incomplete intelligence
7 The Internet as a Mass Media
Surplus of meaning deals
Synchronisation function
Synchronisation and socialisation
Selectivity, mediality and voice in the Internet
Watching the watching
Complexity and overheating
The Internet as an archive of all kinds of statements
Intelligence in the mode of Future perfect
8 Endangered Privacy
The improbability of informational self-determination
A new structural change of the public?
Hazards
Privacy 10
Privacy 10 as a result of Big Data?
Big Data and privacy 20
Rescuing privacy?
9 Debug: Sociology Reborn from the Spirit of Digitalisation
Digital dynamic and social complexity
An opportunity for sociology
Notes
Index
"Nassehi's theory is neither dystopic nor utopic, but asks what digital technology is for. Here the ultimate simplicity of zeros and ones describes an infinite complexity, itself structured into patterns. These patterns are the data that pervade, indeed are constitutive of, the entire social life as we know it. A mind-numbingly simple thesis that indeed works. Read this book."
Scott Lash, Oxford University
"The pandemic showed how much we depend on digital technologies for our connections to others, and at the same time many areas of the world and disadvantaged social groups continue to experience digital social inequities. Armin Nassehi offers a fresh perspective on digital societies through the lens of European sociological theories that have, until now, been little adopted in this area of inquiry."
Deborah Lupton, UNSW Sydney
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.4.2024 |
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Übersetzer | Mirko Wittwar |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie |
Schlagworte | AI • coded numbers to process information • Communication & Media Studies • connvectivity • contemporary social theory • data managements • Data processing • Digitalisation • digital media and society • digital media books • digital revolution, digital technology • Digital Society • german sociologists • how digital technologies change society • Information Processing • Informationsgesellschaft • Kommunikation u. Medienforschung • Media Studies • Medienforschung • Mediensoziologie • patterns in media • Smart Technology • Social Studies • Sociology • Sociology of the Media • solutions to global challenges • Soziologie • theory of the digital society • What is the concept of digital society? • What is the philosophy of digital society? • Zeitgenössische Sozialtheorie |
ISBN-10 | 1-5095-6143-9 / 1509561439 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5095-6143-8 / 9781509561438 |
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