[Air-L] New Book - The Dialectic of Digital Culture

[Arditi, David M]

The Dialectic of Digital Culture<https://blog.uta.edu/digitaldialectic/about-the-book/>
Edited by David Arditi and Jennifer Miller

The aim of this edited collection is to understand the role of digital technology in contemporary society dialectically. While many authors, journalists, and commentators have argued that the Internet and digital technologies will bring us democracy, equality and freedom, digital culture often results in loss of privacy, misinformation, and exploitation. This collection challenges celebratory readings of digital technology by suggesting digital culture's potential is limited because of its fundamental relationship to oppressive social forces.

Contributors to this collection are particularly interested the ways the digital realm challenges and/or reproduces power. Contributors provide innovative case studies of phenomenon including #metoo, Etsy, mommy blogs, music streaming, sustainability and net neutrality to reveal the reproduction of neoliberal cultural logics. In seemingly transformative digital spaces, these essays provide dialectical readings that challenge dominant narratives about technology. Even more, by writing about specific aspects of digital culture that are often under explored, the collection will interest a variety of students and researchers across disciplines and fields of interest.

The website<https://blog.uta.edu/digitaldialectic> contains a sample syllabus<https://blog.uta.edu/digitaldialectic/category/syllabi/>, commentary on ongoing issues in digital culture, and links to news articles that demonstrate the contradictions in digital culture.

Table of Contents<https://blog.uta.edu/digitaldialectic/2019/07/19/table-of-contents/>
Introduction - The Logic of Digital Culture - David Arditi<https://itakeoverbook.wordpress.com/> and Jennifer Miller<https://raisethemrighteous.com/>
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SECTION I. - Power in the Digital Era
Chapter 1 - "Digital Hegemony: Net Neutrality, The Value Gap and Corporate Interests" - David Arditi<https://mentis.uta.edu/explore/profile/david-arditi>
Chapter 2 - "Dialectics of Degradation and Datafication: The Cultural Politics of Ecological Footprints in Earth System Governance" - Timothy W. Luke<https://liberalarts.vt.edu/departments-and-schools/department-of-political-science/faculty/timothy-w-luke.html>
Chapter 3 - "Government vs. Corporate Surveillance: Privacy Concerns in the Digital World" - Brian Connor<https://socy.umd.edu/facultyprofile/connor/brian> and Long Doan<https://socy.umd.edu/facultyprofile/doan/long>
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SECTION II. Politics in the Digital Era
Chapter 4 - "Digital Culture, Media Spectacle, and the Ascension of Donald J. Trump" - Douglas Kellner<https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/>
Chapter 5 - The (Digital) Future is Female: Between Individuality and Collectivity in Online Feminist Practices" - Ariella Horwitz<http://amst.fullerton.edu/faculty/> and Lisa Daily<https://gallatin.nyu.edu/people/faculty/lad421.html>
Chapter 6 - "Queering the Straight World?: Mommy Blogs, Quer Kids, and the Limits of Digital Advocacy" - Jennifer Miller<https://mentis.uta.edu/explore/profile/jennifer-miller>
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SECTION III. Culture in the Digital Era
Chapter 7 - "On the Cultural Power of the 'Mariana's Web' Meme" - Robert W. Gehl<https://www.robertwgehl.org/>
Chapter 8 - "Photography, Bibliography, Digitality, Paradox" - Timothy Morris<https://www.uta.edu/english/tim/>
Chapter 9 - "The New Old: Vinyl Records and Digital Media" - Michael Palm<https://comm.unc.edu/people/department-faculty/michael-palm/>
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Section IV. Being Human in the Digital Era
Chapter 10 - "Digitized Music and the Aesthetic Experience of Difference" - Nancy Weiss Hanrahan<https://soan.gmu.edu/people/nhanraha>
Chapter 11 - "Keeping Commerce Human? Contradictions of Digital Sharing Economy Platforms" - Michele Krugh<https://www.linkedin.com/in/michele-krugh-7110378a/>
Chapter 12 - "From the Wild West to Silicon Valley: Shifting Models of Reproductive Medicine in North America" - Amy Speier<https://mentis.uta.edu/explore/profile/amy-speier>
Conclusion - Avoiding Digital Disaster - David Arditi


David Arditi
Associate Professor of Sociology
Director - Center for Theory
Editor - Fast Capitalism
University of Texas at Arlington
Author of iTake-Over: The Recording Industry in the Digital Era<https://www.amazon.com/iTake-Over-Recording-Industry-Digital-Era/dp/144224013X>