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Author Smith, Trevor Garrison.

Title Politicizing digital space : theory, the internet, and renewing democracy / Trevor Garrison Smith.

Imprint London : University of Westminster Press, 2017.
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 147 pages)
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
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Series CDSMS (Critical digital and social media studies)
CDSMS (Series)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "The objective of this book is to outline how a radically democratic politics can be reinvigorated in theory and practice through the use of the internet. The author argues that politics in its proper sense can be distinguished from anti-politics by analyzing the configuration of public space, subjectivity, participation, and conflict. Each of these terrains can be configured in a more or less political manner, though the contemporary status quo heavily skews them towards anti-political configuration. Using this understanding of what exactly politics entails, this book considers how the internet can both help and hinder efforts to move each area in a more political direction. By explicitly interpreting contemporary theories of the political in terms of the internet, this analysis avoids the twin traps of both technological determinism and technological cynicism. Raising awareness of what the word 'politics' means, the author develops theoretical work by Arendt, Rancière, iek and Mouffe to present a clear and coherent view of how in theory, politics can be digitized and alternatively how the internet can be deployed in the service of trulydemocratic politics."
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. The political realm -- 3. Subjectivity -- 4. Participation -- 5. Conflict -- 6. Steps toward the digitization of politics -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Subject Internet in political campaigns.
Information technology -- Political aspects.
Information society.
Digital media -- Political aspects.
Political participation -- Computer network resources.
Information society -- Political aspects.
Political participation.
Technologie de l'information -- Aspect politique.
Société de l'information -- Aspect politique.
Internet dans les campagnes électorales.
Médias numériques -- Aspect politique.
Participation politique.
Société de l'information.
Communication studies.
Interdisciplinary studies.
Media studies.
Political control and freedoms.
Political science and theory.
Political structure and processes.
Political structures: democracy.
Politics and government.
Reference, information and interdisciplinary subjects.
Social issues and processes.
Society and culture: general.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Communication Studies.
Political participation
Information society -- Political aspects
Digital media -- Political aspects
Information society
Information technology -- Political aspects
Internet in political campaigns
Political participation -- Computer network resources
Indexed Term Arendt
Democracy
Digital media
Internet
Participation
Politics
Rancière
Subjectivity
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: 1911534408
ISBN 9781911534419 (electronic bk.)
1911534416 (electronic bk.)
1911534408
9781911534402
9781911534402
1911534408
9781911534426
1911534424
9781911534433
1911534432
Standard No. 9781911534402
10.16997/book5 doi
UKMGB 019437716
AU@ 000063971590

 
    
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