The participatory condition in the digital age

Sterne, Jonathan, 1970- (editor.). Barney, Darin David, 1966- (editor.). Coleman, E. Gabriella, 1973- (editor.). Ross, Christine, 1958- (editor.).

Summary: "Just what is the "participatory condition"? It is the situation in which taking part in something with others has become both environmental and normative. The fact that we have always participated does not mean we have always lived under the participatory condition. What is distinctive about the present is the extent to which the everyday social, economic, cultural, and political activities that comprise simply being in the world have been thematized and organized around the priority of participation. Structured along four axes investigating the relations between participation and politics, surveillance, openness, and aesthetics, The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age comprises fifteen essays that explore the promises, possibilities, and failures of contemporary participatory media practices as related to power, Occupy Wall Street, the Arab Spring uprisings, worker-owned cooperatives for the post-Internet age; paradoxes of participation, media activism, open source projects; participatory civic life; commercial surveillance; contemporary art and design; and education. This book represents the most comprehensive and transdisciplinary endeavor to date to examine the nature, place, and value of participation in the digital age. Just as in 1979, when Jean-François Lyotard proposed that "the postmodern condition" was characterized by the questioning of historical grand narratives, The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age investigates how participation has become a central preoccupation of our time"--

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ISBN: 9781452952055
ISBN: 1452952051
ISBN: 9781452952048
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ISBN: 9780816697700
ISBN: 0816697701
ISBN: 9780816697717
ISBN: 081669771X
Physical Description: Computer data.
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1 online resource (xxxix, 304 pages)
Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]
Copyright: ©2016

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General Note:	CatMonthString:june.17 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; The Participatory Condition: An Introduction; I. The Politics of Participation; 1. Power as Participation's Master Signifier; 2. Participation as Ideology in Occupy Wall Street; 3. From TuniLeaks to Bassem Youssef: Revolutionary Media in the Arab World; 4. Think Outside the Boss: Cooperative Alternatives for the Post-Internet Age; II. Openness; 5. Paradoxes of Participation; 6. Participatory Design and the Open Source Voice; 7. Open Source Cancer: Brain Scans and the Rituality of Biodigital Data Sharing
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.