Overview

Structured along four axes investigating therelations between participation and politics, surveillance, openness, andaesthetics, The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age comprisesfifteen essays that explore the promises, possibilities, and failures ofcontemporary participatory media practices. This book represents the mostcomprehensive and transdisciplinary endeavor to date to examine the nature,place, and value of participation in the digital age.

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Author:   Darin Barney ,  Gabriella Coleman ,  Christine Ross ,  Jonathan Sterne
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Volume:   51
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 5.10cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9780816697717

ISBN 10:   081669771
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   01 November 2016
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents The Participatory Condition: An Introduction Darin Barney, Gabriella Coleman, Christine Ross, Jonathan Sterne, and Tamar Tembeck Part I: The Politics of Participation: 1. Power as Participation's Master Signifier Nico Carpentier 2. Participation as Ideology in Occupy Wall Street Cayley Sorochan 3: From TuniLeaks to Bassem Youssef: Revolutionary Media in the Arab World Jillian C. York 4. Think Outside the Boss: Cooperative Alternatives for the Post-Internet Age Trebor Scholz Part II. Openness 5. Paradoxes of Participation Christina Dunbar-Hester 6. Participatory Design and the Open Source Voice Graham Pullin 7. Open Source Cancer: Brain Scans and the Rituality of Biodigital Data Sharing Alessandro Delfanti and Salvatore Iaconesi 8. Internet-Mediated Mutual Cooperation Practices: The Sharing of Material and Immaterial Resources Bart Cammaerts Part III. Participation under Surveillance 9. Big Urban Data and Shrinking Civic Space: The Statistical City Meets the Simulated City Kate Crawford 10. The Pacification of Interactivity Mark Andrejevic 11. The Surveillance–Innovation Complex: The Irony of the Participatory Turn Julie E. Cohen Part IV. Participation and Aisthesis: 12. Preparations for a Haunting: Notes toward an Indigenous Future Imaginary Jason Edward Lewis 13. Participatory Situations: The Dialogical Art of Instant Narrative by Dora García Rudolf Frieling 14. The Formation of New Reason: Seven Proposals for the Renewal of Education Bernard Stiegler 15. Zoom Pavilion Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Krzysztof Wodiczko Acknowledgments Index

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The editors are affiliated with the Department of Art History and Communication Studies and the interdisciplinary research hub Media@McGill at McGill University. Darin Barney, associate professor, is author of Communication Technology, The Network Society, and Prometheus Wired. Gabriella Coleman, associate professor, is author of Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy and Coding Freedom. Christine Ross, professor and the director of Media@McGill, is author of The Aesthetics of Disengagement (Minnesota, 2005) and The Past Is the Present. Jonathan Sterne, professor, is author of MP3 and The Audible Past. Tamar Tembeck, academic associate at Media@McGill, is the editor of Auto/Pathographies.

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