Overview
- Develops and promotes a new mode and methodology of media studies based on interdisciplinary attention to global/digital codes/software/content
- Offers a new approach to media studies based on attention to inter-language relations in a ‘dynamic network model’
- Investigates how content-networks in different languages are facilitated by ‘language amateurs’ and human-algorithmic interaction cultures
- Valuable in the way in which it brings bring together the works of various disciplines including the humanities and social sciences, as well as research on complexity and networks
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Ties That Bind
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Nodes in Motion
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Orders of Magnitude
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Epilogue
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About this book
This volume unpacks an intriguing challenge for the field of media research: combining media research with the study of complex networks. Bringing together research on the small-world idea and digital culture it questions the assumption that we are separated from any other person on the planet by just a few steps, and that this distance decreases within digital social networks. The book argues that the role of languages is decisive to understand how people connect, and it looks at the consequences this has on the ways knowledge spreads digitally. This volume offers a first conceptual venue to analyse emerging phenomena at the innovative intersection of media and complex network research.
Reviews
“In his fascinating book, Thomas Petzold takes us on an ambitious tour d'horizon of the contemporary sociotechnical landscape of knowledge diffusion and evolution. He outlines the great potential for our individual 'knowledgebits' to be connected and recombined in ways that produce new meaning and insight, but also laments the many human and technological barriers that continue to impede our progress. We've come a long way, but there's so much further to go.” (Axel Bruns, Professor and Director at Queensland University of Technology's Digital Media Research Centre, and President of the Association of Internet Researchers)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Thomas Petzold is a media complexity scientist, and currently Professor of Media Management at the University of Applied Sciences for Media, Communication and Economics, Berlin, Germany (HMKW Berlin).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Global Knowledge Dynamics and Social Technology
Authors: Thomas Petzold
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41234-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-41233-7Published: 09 June 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82303-4Published: 12 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-41234-4Published: 31 May 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 152
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Media, Knowledge - Discourse, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Digital Humanities, Computational Linguistics, Screen Studies