The Silent Revolution
How Digitalization Transforms Knowledge, Work, Journalism and Politics without Making Too Much Noise
Authors: Bunz, M.
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- About this book
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Critically engaging, illustrative and with numerous examples, The Silent Revolution delivers a philosophically informed introduction to current debates on digital technology and calls for a more active role of humans towards technology.
- About the authors
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Mercedes Bunz is Lecturer in Media Studies at Leuphana University, Germany, where she is also Director of the Hybrid Publishing Lab, exploring academic publishing in the digital age. She writes on digital media, journalism and the philosophy of technology, and she has been the technology reporter of The Guardian.
- Reviews
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"Finally, a 'Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere' (Habermas) for the digital age! This smart book maps the transformation of the public sphere in the age of digitalization, and is an important contribution to the sociology of media." - Scott Lash, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre of Cultural Studies at University of London, Goldsmiths, UK
"This book offers a critical analysis of contemporary debates around the issue of algorithms, software and code, giving rich examples to explain its impact on society and the potential ways forward for developing our understanding of these control technologies. As such the book is an important contribution to scholarly work on the digitalization of knowledge and the growing field of software studies." - Dr David M Berry, Author of The Philosophy of Software and Reader in Digital Media, University of Sussex, UK
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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When Algorithms Learned How to Write
Pages 1-24
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How the Automation of Knowledge Changes Skilled Work
Pages 25-42
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The Second Nature
Pages 43-62
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On the Production of Crowds
Pages 63-81
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The Digital Public
Pages 82-94
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Silent Revolution
- Book Subtitle
- How Digitalization Transforms Knowledge, Work, Journalism and Politics without Making Too Much Noise
- Authors
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- M. Bunz
- Copyright
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-37350-2
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137373502
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-37349-6
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 134
- Topics
