Organized networks : media theory, creative labour, new institutions / Ned Rossiter

By:

Rossiter, Ned

Series: Studies in network culturesPublication details: Rotterdam : NAi : Institute of Network Cultures, cop. 2006Description: 250 pISBN:

9789056625269

Summary: The celebration of network cultures as open, decentralized, and horizontal all too easily forgets the political dimensions of labour and life in informational times. Organized Networks sets out to destroy these myths by tracking the antagonisms that lurk within Internet governance debates, the exploitation of labour in the creative industries, and the aesthetics of global finance capital. Cutting across the fields of media theory, political philosophy, and cultural critique, Ned Rossiter diagnoses some of the key problematics facing network cultures today. Why have radical social-technical networks so often collapsed after the party? What are the key resources common to critical network cultures? And how might these create conditions for the invention of new platforms of organization and sustainability? These questions are central to the survival of networks in a post-dotcom era. Derived from research and experiences participating in network cultures, Rossiter unleashes a range of strategic concepts in order to explain and facilitate the current transformation of networks into autonomous political and cultural ‘networks of networks’. (Font: Editor)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Sala	General	S 00392	1	Available		1900134345

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I. 1. Whose democracy? NGOS, information societies and non-representative democracy ; 2. The world summit on the information society and organized networks as new civil society movements -- Part II. 3. Creative industries, comparative media theory and the limits of critique from within ; 4. Creative labour and the role of intellectual property -- Part III. 5. Processual media theory ; 6. Virtuosity, processual democracy and organized networks -- Notes -- Bibliography

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