商品簡介
Digital socio-cultural phenomena can be disruptive, as in playful flashmobs or more serious online activism. Yet new Internet capabilities can also be dominated over time by large corporations or encourage phenomena such as "clicktivism" where someone feels like they have made a difference with a simple mouse click. Lindgren (sociology, Umea U.) here takes the middle ground, arguing that both things are happening, and explores the extent of each through analysis of things like web clicks and Google searches. Lindgren brings classic cultural theories of power and resistance into the age of digital social networks. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Simon Lindgren is Professor of Sociology at Umea University, Sweden. He researches digital culture with a focus on how new media audiences navigate the border landscape between the new potentials for participation and activism on the one hand, and the risks for exclusion and exploitation on the other. Simon is actively taking part in developing theoretical as well as methodological tools for analyzing discursive and social network aspects of the emerging new media landscape. He has published internationally on themes like hacktivism, digital piracy, citizen journalism, subcultural creativity, popular culture, and visual politics.