This book examines the semiotic effects of protocols and algorithms at work in popular social media systems, bridging philosophical conversations in human-computer interaction (HCI) and information systems (IS) design with contemporary work in critical media, technology and software studies. Where most research into social media is sociological in scope, Neal Thomas shows how the underlying material-semiotic operations of social media now crucially define what it means to be social in a networked age. He proposes that we consider social media platforms as computational processes of collective individuation that produce, rather than presume, forms of subjectivity and sociality.
| ISBN: | 9780367888435 |
| Publication date: | 10th December 2019 |
| Author: | Neal Thomas |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 192 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture |
| Genres: |
Information architecture Information theory Communication studies Media studies: internet, digital media and society Media studies Philosophy Information technology: general topics |
This book examines the semiotic effects of protocols and algorithms at work in popular social media systems, bridging philosophical conversations in human-computer interaction (HCI) and information systems (IS) design with contemporary work in critical media, technology and software studies. Where most research into social media is sociological in scope, Neal Thomas shows how the underlying material-semiotic operations of social media now crucially define what it means to be social in a networked age. He proposes that we consider social media platforms as computational processes of collective individuation that produce, rather than presume, forms of subjectivity and sociality.
Becoming-Social in a Networked Age features in the following genres: Information architecture, Information theory, Communication studies, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, Media studies, Philosophy, Information technology: general topics
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Becoming-Social in a Networked Age was written by Neal Thomas and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd
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