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Author: Richard Rogers (University of Amsterdam)
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
Imprint: MIT Press
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.295kg
ISBN: 9780262681643
ISBN 10: 0262681641
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 11 August 2006
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product
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Reviews
If you have ever been horrified by the nonsense floating around on the Web, or stunned by the hype of those who claim that e-politics will soon replace real politics, then this book is for you. Finally, someone investigates the Web's ability to express, replace, renew, and disrupt the age-old tools of political expression. Richard Rogers's Web mapping experiments form a great inquiry into the practices of political science. --Bruno Latour, Ecole des Mines, Paris Rogers presents a profoundly different way of thinking about information in cyberspace, one that supports the political efforts of democratic activists and NGOs and takes seriously the epistemological issues at the heart of networked communications. His approach is light-years ahead of other research: Not only are the four political instruments he has developed for analyzing the Web innovative, but the set of theoretical assumptions underlying them breaks new ground. He rejects the tired and banal focus on fandom, porn, and aliens that took cyber-theory into a cultural and political wasteland. His Web is instead a serious, dynamic site of political struggle. --Jodi Dean, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, author of Publicity's Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy A brilliant deciphering of informational politics. Rogers shows us how the Web can be a site for both officialdom and its unsettling. He also proposes a Web epistemology based on the ways in which Web dynamics can function as embedded adjudication cultures, and thus assess the trustworthiness of information sources. --Saskia Sassen, University of Chicago, author of Globalization and Its Discontents
A brilliant deciphering of informational politics. Rogers shows us how the Web can be a site for both officialdom and its unsettling. He also proposes a Web epistemology based on the ways in which Web dynamics can function as embedded adjudication cultures, and thus assess the trustworthiness of information sources. Saskia Sassen, University of Chicago, author of Globalization and Its Discontents
Author Information
Richard Rogers is University Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam and the author of Information Politics on the Web (MIT Press).
