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The Silent Revolution

How Digitalization Transforms Knowledge, Work, Journalism and Politics without Making Too Much Noise

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. When Algorithms Learned How to Write

    • Mercedes Bunz
    Pages 1-24
  3. The Second Nature

    • Mercedes Bunz
    Pages 43-62
  4. On the Production of Crowds

    • Mercedes Bunz
    Pages 63-81
  5. The Digital Public

    • Mercedes Bunz
    Pages 82-94
  6. The Silent Revolution

    • Mercedes Bunz
    Pages 95-115
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 116-134

About this book

Critically engaging, illustrative and with numerous examples, The Silent Revolution delivers a philosophically informed introduction to current debates on digital technology and calls for a more active role of humans towards technology.

Reviews

"Finally, a 'Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere' (Habermas) for the digital age! This smart book maps the transformation of the public sphere in the age of digitalization, and is an important contribution to the sociology of media." - Scott Lash, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre of Cultural Studies at University of London, Goldsmiths, UK

"This book offers a critical analysis of contemporary debates around the issue of algorithms, software and code, giving rich examples to explain its impact on society and the potential ways forward for developing our understanding of these control technologies. As such the book is an important contribution to scholarly work on the digitalization of knowledge and the growing field of software studies." - Dr David M Berry, Author of The Philosophy of Software and Reader in Digital Media, University of Sussex, UK

Authors and Affiliations

  • Leuphana University, Germany

    Mercedes Bunz

About the author

Mercedes Bunz is Lecturer in Media Studies at Leuphana University, Germany, where she is also Director of the Hybrid Publishing Lab, exploring academic publishing in the digital age. She writes on digital media, journalism and the philosophy of technology, and she has been the technology reporter of The Guardian.

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eBook USD 39.99
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