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

Tue Oct 22 14:17:39 PDT 2019

Dear David Arditi and Jennifer Miller (and AoIR),

Hearty congratulations on the publication of your "The Dialectic of
Digital Culture." Am curious how it might come into conversation in a
dialectic way with Manuel Castells' book "Communication Power"
(2009/2013) which touches on many of the issues your book focuses on.

May explore reading your book in the course I teach on "Society,
Information Technology and the Global University" -
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html -
in 2020 at CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School.

All the best, Scott

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org/
- http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

This looks wonderful, will be coming out in softcover as well?

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On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 14:02:24 +0000, "Arditi, David M"
<darditi at uta.edu> wrote:

The Dialectic of Digital Culture
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 contains a sample syllabus, commentary on ongoing issues
in digital culture, and links to news articles that demonstrate the
contradictions in digital culture.

Table of Contents
Introduction - The Logic of Digital Culture - David Arditi and Jennifer Miller
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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
Chapter 2 - "Dialectics of Degradation and Datafication: The Cultural
Politics of Ecological Footprints in Earth System Governance" -
Timothy W. Luke
Chapter 3 - "Government vs. Corporate Surveillance: Privacy Concerns
in the Digital World" - Brian Connor and Long Doan
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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
Chapter 5 - The (Digital) Future is Female: Between Individuality and
Collectivity in Online Feminist Practices" - Ariella Horwitz and Lisa
Daily
Chapter 6 - "Queering the Straight World?: Mommy Blogs, Quer Kids, and
the Limits of Digital Advocacy" - 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
Chapter 8 - "Photography, Bibliography, Digitality, Paradox" - Timothy Morris
Chapter 9 - "The New Old: Vinyl Records and Digital Media" - 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
Chapter 11 - "Keeping Commerce Human? Contradictions of Digital
Sharing Economy Platforms" - Michele Krugh
Chapter 12 - "From the Wild West to Silicon Valley: Shifting Models of
Reproductive Medicine in North America" - 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

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