Hakken / Andrews / Teli On Value(s) and the Making of Cyberspace

Common Devices
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-317-40442-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 268 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Sociology

If it comes fully into existence, cyberspace will emerge out of current practices and the situated knowledges on which they are based. Some of its new dimensions remain to be discovered, others to be created, but all - the authors of this book argue - need to be interpreted, as cyberspace's emergence depends upon deliberate choice as well as invention. Showing that while many current forms of computing manifest the contradictions and crises of our time, others are suggestive of a new regime that could be fostered and evolved out of the existing ones, the book provides specific examples of the ways in which the nascent alternatives implicit in the digital could be nurtured and the kinds of institutions that would support this nurturing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hakken, David

Andrews, Barbara

Teli, Maurizio

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein Soziale und ethische Aspekte der EDV
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Theoretical Orientations: Social Formation Reproduction and Collective Action in General 3. Description: Social Formation Reproduction Now 4. Critique: The Shortcomings of Existing Theories of the Dynamics of Current Social Formation Reproduction 5. An Alternative, Ethnological Theory of Value(s), The Central Theoretical Enabler of Restored Social Formation Reproduction 6. Theory Applied: Candidates for New Value(s) in Cyberspace 7. Structure: New Institutions to Support New Values 8. Dynamics: New Things to Measure to Support New Institutions 9. Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

David Hakken is Professor of Social Informatics, School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University-Bloomington, and Fellow at the University of Trento.

Maurizio Teli is Researcher, at the
Barbara Andrews is a writer and an independent researcher on arts, education, and technology.