Technically Together: Rethinking Community within Techno-society: 28 (Digital Formations) - Softcover

Willson, Michelle A.

 
9780820476131: Technically Together: Rethinking Community within Techno-society: 28 (Digital Formations)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0820476137 ISBN 13: 9780820476131
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2006

Synopsis

Mobile phones and SMS (short message service), the Internet and email, are digital technologies that are transforming our ways of being together. Or are they? Cutting through the hype about how the Internet is revolutionizing the ways we relate to one another, Michele A. Willson offers a wide-ranging investigation of community in the digital age. Technically Together takes the reader on a thoughtful tour of the key writings on community and technology and the current debates that surround them to provide a clear understanding of the challenges new technologies present for theories of social interaction. Drawing on the political and social theory of a broad range of theorists from Charles Taylor and Jean-Luc Nancy to Mark Poster, and the most influential minds in the philosophy of technology from Marshall McLuhan to Martin Heidegger, Technically Together offers new ways of thinking about digitally mediated community.

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About the Author

Michele A. Willson lectures on Internet studies at Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia. Awarded her Ph.D. in politics from Monash University, she is interested in mediated sociality and techno-community.

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Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0820476137
ISBN 13 
9780820476131
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
250