书目名称 | Media and New Capitalism in the Digital Age | 副标题 | The Spirit of Networ | 编辑 | Eran Fisher | 视频video | | 概述 | TIMELY: The book takes on some of the most topical and hotly debated issues both in popular culture and academic circles concerning digital technology and the digital society..CONTRIBUTION TO FIELD: T | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | This book explores the new terrain of network capitalism through the transformations of the discourse on technology. Rather than viewing such discourse as either a true or false reflection of reality, Fisher evaluates the ideological role that technology discourse plays in the legitimation of a new form of capitalism. Based on an extensive empirical analysis, the book argues that contemporary technology discourse at one and the same time promises more personal empowerment through network technology and legitimates a more privatized, flexible, and precarious economic constellations. Such discourse signals a new tradeoff in the political culture of capitalism, from a legitimation discourse which emphasizes the capacity of technology and technique to bring about social emancipation (through equality, stability, and security) to a legitimation discourse which focuses on the capacity of technology to bring about individual emancipation (through individual empowerment, authenticity, creativity, and cooperation). Contrary to the prevailing assumption that sees network technology as liberating from the rigidity and pitfalls of a stifling, Fordist capitalism, the book offers a theoretical f | 出版日期 | Book 2010 | 关键词 | capitalism; culture; media; network; networks; production; technology; transformation; work | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230106062 | isbn_softcover | 978-1-137-31081-1 | isbn_ebook | 978-0-230-10606-2 | copyright | Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2010 |
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