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[ecrea] book announcement: Digital Transitions

Sat Apr 09 12:50:50 GMT 2016


Wittel, Andreas (2016), Digital Transitions. Saarbrücken: Lambert
Academic Publishing.

Description: Digital Transitions explores the relationship between
technological changes and the social, political, economic, and cultural
contexts in which these changes occur. Digital technologies have moved
into every corner of life and the classic separation between work and
non-work has become obsolete. The digital economy has become
indistinguishable from life in the digital age. This is a book about the
merger of economy and life, about life in digital capitalism. It
explores four moments of digital transitions: The first chapter explores
transitions of sharing, both as a concept or an ideology and as a social
practice. The second chapter explores a transition in the political
economy of media and communication and its recent turn to the work of
Marx. The third chapter focuses on the building of the digital commons
and its very particular economy of contribution. The final chapter turns
the light on academic cultures and inspects the activist turn in academia.


Keywords: political economy; Marx; capitalism; digital media; activism;
sharing; digital commons


Here you can order a copy for your library.

https://www.lap-publishing.com/catalog/details//store/gb/book/978-3-659-77964-0/digital-transitions

Or here:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Digital-Transitions-Andreas-Wittel/dp/3659779644


Here you can download a free PDF file of the book.

https://www.academia.edu/22598468/Digital_Transitions

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