T Jordan
Biographic Data
| ID | 13520 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T Jordan |
| GIVEN NAMES | T |
| FAMILY NAME | Jordan |
| SIGNATURE | JORDAN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0057-291X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 115 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Researching the digital economy and the creative economy: Free gaming shards and commercialised making at the intersection of digitality and creativity
Despite the creative economy relying on digital technology and the digital economy needing creative input, policy and research alike tend to miss or underestimate interdependencies between these two economies. This article argues for the importance of acknowledging interdependencies and overlaps between the cultural and creative economy and the digital economy – while likewise refraining from implicitly conflating the two. Starting from a compara…
Doing Digital Social (And Cultural and Media) Research: What Stays the Same When Everything Changes
Research into digital sociality often encounters, both in academic and non-academic contexts, the claim that there is no point doing such research because the technologies being examined change so fast that analysis can never keep up. This article criticises any such claim. First, the article examines three kinds of 'sameness' that span the introduction of different technologies: internet-based text communication, digital platforms and informatio…
Does online anonymity undermine the sense of personal responsibility
This article begins by exploring the media visibility of anonymity online, in particular in relation to trolls and online bullying. It then explores anonymity in the case of Chelsea Manning who leaked US military secrets but only lost anonymity sometime after her leak was made public. This discussion explores issues of responsibility and the reasons for being anonymous. The article then briefly discusses anonymity based on the discussion of the M…
Mobile moralities: Ethical consumption in the digital realm
Ethical consumption, as a realm of production and exchange, a framework for purchasing decisions and as political activism, is now well established in a range of nations. As a politics, it points to an interconnected but divergent set of concerns centred on issues of environmental sustainability, local and global economic and social justice, and community and individual wellbeing. While the subject of sustained critique, not least because of its …
Information Politics: Liberation and Exploitation in the Digital Society
Conflict over information has become a central part of modern politics and culture. The sites of struggle are numerous, the actors beyond count. Currents of liberation and exploitation course through the debates about Edward Snowden and surveillance, Anonymous, search engines and social media. In Information Politics, Tim Jordan identifies all these issues in relation to a general understanding of the nature of an information politics that emerge…
Histories of Hating
This roundtable discussion presents a dialogue between digital culture scholars on the seemingly increased presence of hating and hate speech online. Revolving primarily around the recent #GamerGate campaign of intensely misogynistic discourse aimed at women in video games, the discussion suggests that the current moment for hate online needs to be situated historically. From the perspective of intersecting cultural histories of hate speech, disc…
Why I Joined Facebook and Still Regret It
This article argues for a particular understanding of identity and sociality in social media. While there is considerable insightful research about the sociality and subjectivity produced in social media, it is also important to see that such identity and sociality is about creating and maintaining public-private boundaries online that can be different to those divisions of public and private that are lived offline
Troubling Companions: Companion Species and the Politics of Inter-relations
This article examines Donna Haraway's concept of companion species by asking the question: Are technologies a species or not? This question is analysed through a comparison between the companion species of Haraway's in her agility dog and the technology of the surfboard and its rider. It is argued that the concept of companion species has difficulty distinguishing between technologies or machines as companion species and the bodies of sporting do…
Hacking and power: Social and technological determinism in the digital age
This article outlines the nature of hacking and then draws implications from this for understandings of technology and society in the digital age. Hacking is analysed as having a material practice related to computers and networks taken up by two core groups: crackers who break into other people's computers and network and the Free Software and Open Source who produce software based on an understanding of property as distribution. Hacking works c…
The Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games and Learning
In recent years, digital media and networks have become embedded in our everyday lives, and are part of broad-based changes to how we engage in knowledge production, communication, and creative expression.Unlike the early years in the development of computers and computer-based media, digital media are now commonplace and pervasive, having been taken up by a wide range of individuals and institutions in all walks of life.Digital media have escape…
Hacktivism and Cyberwars: Rebels with a Cause?
As global society becomes more and more dependent, politically and economically, on the flow of information, the power of those who can disrupt and manipulate that flow also increases. In Hacktivism and Cyberwars Tim Jordan and Paul Taylor provide a detailed history of hacktivism's evolution from early hacking culture to its present day status as the radical face of online politics. They describe the ways in which hacktivism has re-appropriated h…
The Pleasures and Pains of Pikachu
Pokémon is a phenomenon that has enticed children throughout the world. The essential components of the Pokémon universe are introduced first by outlining the logics of life in Pokémon and then by presenting the main components through which these logics are realized: videogames, cartoons, cards, movies and merchandising. These five components and associated logics are then outlined as a form of branded hyperdifferentiating capitalism. In Pokémon…
Cyberpower: The Culture and Politics of Cyberspace and the Internet
This is the first complete introduction to and analysis of the politics of the internet. Chapters are arranged around key words and use case studies to guide the reader through a wealth of material.Cyberpower presents all the key concepts of cyberspace including:* power and cyberspace* the virtual individual* society in cyberspace* imagination and the internet.
Measuring the Internet: Host Counts Versus Business Plans
The excessive media attention in and economic hopes placed on the Internet mean that measures of its size and distribution have been undertaken more often with an eye to business plans than to methodological rigour.This paper examines one disinterested source of Internet statistics, the Internet Domain Survey, to provide accurate measures of Internet size and distribution. Methodological issues in utilizing this survey are discussed to ensure the…
Measuring the Internet: Host Counts Versus Business Plans
The excessive media attention in and economic hopes placed on the Internet mean that measures of its size and distribution have been undertaken more often with an eye to business plans than to methodological rigour.This paper examines one disinterested source of Internet statistics, the Internet Domain Survey, to provide accurate measures of Internet size and distribution. Methodological issues in utilizing this survey are discussed to ensure the…
Time to Protest: The Environment and Direct Action
Language and Libertarianism: The Politics of Cyberculture and the Culture of Cyberpolitics
A significant number of theories concerning the nature of cyberspace or virtuality are being constructed with little regard for the empirical realities of online life. This article sets out certain simple empirical factors related to the nature first of politics in cyberspace and second culture in cyberspace. These questions are posed as 'what is the politics of cyberculture?' and 'what is the culture of cyberpolitics?'. The politics of cybercult…
A Sociology of Hackers
Illicit computer intruders, or hackers, are often thought of as pathological individuals rather than as members of a community. However, hackers exist within social groups that provide expertise, support, training, journals and conferences. This article outlines this community to establish the nature of hacking within 'information societies'. To delineate a 'sociology of hackers', an introduction is provided to the nature of computer-mediated com…
The Self-Refuting Paradox and the Conditions of Sociological Thought
Modernity and postmodernity have formed an important framework for debate in sociological theory. The often confrontational nature of the debate has obscured key conclusions but these can be outlined by considering an argument often used by modernists against postmodernists, called the self-refuting paradox. This argument takes the form 'the claim that there is no such thing as the Rational is itself a rational claim and so refutes itself'. First…
The Philosophical Politics of Jean-Franqois Lyotard
The systematic philosophical foundation for Jean-François Lyotard's postmodern and post-Marxist politics is described. The central principle of the right to create different "phrases" is uncovered and examined. The political consequences of this philosophical system are explored, leading to the conclusion that Lyotard's commitment to difference leads to political indifference. The philosophical roots of this indifference are detailed in Lyotard's…
Collective Bodies: Raving and the Politics of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
The Unity of Social Movements
A coherent intellectual structure for social movement studies has recently been emerging over a range of theoretical and empirical studies. This structure counterposes 'within social movements' a diverse range of collective actions against the unity imposed by a collective identity. However, theorisations of this collective identity have so far failed to address the contradiction between structure and agency. A definition of collective identity f…
A Sociology of Hackers
Illicit computer intruders, or hackers, are often thought of as pathological individuals rather than as members of a community. However, hackers exist within social groups that provide expertise, support, training, journals and conferences. This article outlines this community to establish the nature of hacking within 'information societies'. To delineate a 'sociology of hackers', an introduction is provided to the nature of computer-mediated com…
The Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games and Learning
In recent years, digital media and networks have become embedded in our everyday lives, and are part of broad-based changes to how we engage in knowledge production, communication, and creative expression.Unlike the early years in the development of computers and computer-based media, digital media are now commonplace and pervasive, having been taken up by a wide range of individuals and institutions in all walks of life.Digital media have escape…
Collective Bodies: Raving and the Politics of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
Histories of Hating
This roundtable discussion presents a dialogue between digital culture scholars on the seemingly increased presence of hating and hate speech online. Revolving primarily around the recent #GamerGate campaign of intensely misogynistic discourse aimed at women in video games, the discussion suggests that the current moment for hate online needs to be situated historically. From the perspective of intersecting cultural histories of hate speech, disc…
Mobile moralities: Ethical consumption in the digital realm
Ethical consumption, as a realm of production and exchange, a framework for purchasing decisions and as political activism, is now well established in a range of nations. As a politics, it points to an interconnected but divergent set of concerns centred on issues of environmental sustainability, local and global economic and social justice, and community and individual wellbeing. While the subject of sustained critique, not least because of its …
The Pleasures and Pains of Pikachu
Pokémon is a phenomenon that has enticed children throughout the world. The essential components of the Pokémon universe are introduced first by outlining the logics of life in Pokémon and then by presenting the main components through which these logics are realized: videogames, cartoons, cards, movies and merchandising. These five components and associated logics are then outlined as a form of branded hyperdifferentiating capitalism. In Pokémon…
Language and Libertarianism: The Politics of Cyberculture and the Culture of Cyberpolitics
A significant number of theories concerning the nature of cyberspace or virtuality are being constructed with little regard for the empirical realities of online life. This article sets out certain simple empirical factors related to the nature first of politics in cyberspace and second culture in cyberspace. These questions are posed as 'what is the politics of cyberculture?' and 'what is the culture of cyberpolitics?'. The politics of cybercult…
The Unity of Social Movements
A coherent intellectual structure for social movement studies has recently been emerging over a range of theoretical and empirical studies. This structure counterposes 'within social movements' a diverse range of collective actions against the unity imposed by a collective identity. However, theorisations of this collective identity have so far failed to address the contradiction between structure and agency. A definition of collective identity f…
Does online anonymity undermine the sense of personal responsibility
This article begins by exploring the media visibility of anonymity online, in particular in relation to trolls and online bullying. It then explores anonymity in the case of Chelsea Manning who leaked US military secrets but only lost anonymity sometime after her leak was made public. This discussion explores issues of responsibility and the reasons for being anonymous. The article then briefly discusses anonymity based on the discussion of the M…
The Philosophical Politics of Jean-Franqois Lyotard
The systematic philosophical foundation for Jean-François Lyotard's postmodern and post-Marxist politics is described. The central principle of the right to create different "phrases" is uncovered and examined. The political consequences of this philosophical system are explored, leading to the conclusion that Lyotard's commitment to difference leads to political indifference. The philosophical roots of this indifference are detailed in Lyotard's…
The Philosophical Politics of Jean-Franqois Lyotard
The systematic philosophical foundation for Jean-François Lyotard's postmodern and post-Marxist politics is described. The central principle of the right to create different "phrases" is uncovered and examined. The political consequences of this philosophical system are explored, leading to the conclusion that Lyotard's commitment to difference leads to political indifference. The philosophical roots of this indifference are detailed in Lyotard's…
Collective Bodies: Raving and the Politics of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
The Unity of Social Movements
A coherent intellectual structure for social movement studies has recently been emerging over a range of theoretical and empirical studies. This structure counterposes 'within social movements' a diverse range of collective actions against the unity imposed by a collective identity. However, theorisations of this collective identity have so far failed to address the contradiction between structure and agency. A definition of collective identity f…
The Self-Refuting Paradox and the Conditions of Sociological Thought
Modernity and postmodernity have formed an important framework for debate in sociological theory. The often confrontational nature of the debate has obscured key conclusions but these can be outlined by considering an argument often used by modernists against postmodernists, called the self-refuting paradox. This argument takes the form 'the claim that there is no such thing as the Rational is itself a rational claim and so refutes itself'. First…
A Sociology of Hackers
Illicit computer intruders, or hackers, are often thought of as pathological individuals rather than as members of a community. However, hackers exist within social groups that provide expertise, support, training, journals and conferences. This article outlines this community to establish the nature of hacking within 'information societies'. To delineate a 'sociology of hackers', an introduction is provided to the nature of computer-mediated com…
Measuring the Internet: Host Counts Versus Business Plans
The excessive media attention in and economic hopes placed on the Internet mean that measures of its size and distribution have been undertaken more often with an eye to business plans than to methodological rigour.This paper examines one disinterested source of Internet statistics, the Internet Domain Survey, to provide accurate measures of Internet size and distribution. Methodological issues in utilizing this survey are discussed to ensure the…
Measuring the Internet: Host Counts Versus Business Plans
The excessive media attention in and economic hopes placed on the Internet mean that measures of its size and distribution have been undertaken more often with an eye to business plans than to methodological rigour.This paper examines one disinterested source of Internet statistics, the Internet Domain Survey, to provide accurate measures of Internet size and distribution. Methodological issues in utilizing this survey are discussed to ensure the…
Time to Protest: The Environment and Direct Action
Language and Libertarianism: The Politics of Cyberculture and the Culture of Cyberpolitics
A significant number of theories concerning the nature of cyberspace or virtuality are being constructed with little regard for the empirical realities of online life. This article sets out certain simple empirical factors related to the nature first of politics in cyberspace and second culture in cyberspace. These questions are posed as 'what is the politics of cyberculture?' and 'what is the culture of cyberpolitics?'. The politics of cybercult…
Cyberpower: The Culture and Politics of Cyberspace and the Internet
This is the first complete introduction to and analysis of the politics of the internet. Chapters are arranged around key words and use case studies to guide the reader through a wealth of material.Cyberpower presents all the key concepts of cyberspace including:* power and cyberspace* the virtual individual* society in cyberspace* imagination and the internet.
Hacktivism and Cyberwars: Rebels with a Cause?
As global society becomes more and more dependent, politically and economically, on the flow of information, the power of those who can disrupt and manipulate that flow also increases. In Hacktivism and Cyberwars Tim Jordan and Paul Taylor provide a detailed history of hacktivism's evolution from early hacking culture to its present day status as the radical face of online politics. They describe the ways in which hacktivism has re-appropriated h…
The Pleasures and Pains of Pikachu
Pokémon is a phenomenon that has enticed children throughout the world. The essential components of the Pokémon universe are introduced first by outlining the logics of life in Pokémon and then by presenting the main components through which these logics are realized: videogames, cartoons, cards, movies and merchandising. These five components and associated logics are then outlined as a form of branded hyperdifferentiating capitalism. In Pokémon…
Hacking and power: Social and technological determinism in the digital age
This article outlines the nature of hacking and then draws implications from this for understandings of technology and society in the digital age. Hacking is analysed as having a material practice related to computers and networks taken up by two core groups: crackers who break into other people's computers and network and the Free Software and Open Source who produce software based on an understanding of property as distribution. Hacking works c…
The Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games and Learning
In recent years, digital media and networks have become embedded in our everyday lives, and are part of broad-based changes to how we engage in knowledge production, communication, and creative expression.Unlike the early years in the development of computers and computer-based media, digital media are now commonplace and pervasive, having been taken up by a wide range of individuals and institutions in all walks of life.Digital media have escape…
Troubling Companions: Companion Species and the Politics of Inter-relations
This article examines Donna Haraway's concept of companion species by asking the question: Are technologies a species or not? This question is analysed through a comparison between the companion species of Haraway's in her agility dog and the technology of the surfboard and its rider. It is argued that the concept of companion species has difficulty distinguishing between technologies or machines as companion species and the bodies of sporting do…
Information Politics: Liberation and Exploitation in the Digital Society
Conflict over information has become a central part of modern politics and culture. The sites of struggle are numerous, the actors beyond count. Currents of liberation and exploitation course through the debates about Edward Snowden and surveillance, Anonymous, search engines and social media. In Information Politics, Tim Jordan identifies all these issues in relation to a general understanding of the nature of an information politics that emerge…
Histories of Hating
This roundtable discussion presents a dialogue between digital culture scholars on the seemingly increased presence of hating and hate speech online. Revolving primarily around the recent #GamerGate campaign of intensely misogynistic discourse aimed at women in video games, the discussion suggests that the current moment for hate online needs to be situated historically. From the perspective of intersecting cultural histories of hate speech, disc…
Why I Joined Facebook and Still Regret It
This article argues for a particular understanding of identity and sociality in social media. While there is considerable insightful research about the sociality and subjectivity produced in social media, it is also important to see that such identity and sociality is about creating and maintaining public-private boundaries online that can be different to those divisions of public and private that are lived offline
Mobile moralities: Ethical consumption in the digital realm
Ethical consumption, as a realm of production and exchange, a framework for purchasing decisions and as political activism, is now well established in a range of nations. As a politics, it points to an interconnected but divergent set of concerns centred on issues of environmental sustainability, local and global economic and social justice, and community and individual wellbeing. While the subject of sustained critique, not least because of its …
Doing Digital Social (And Cultural and Media) Research: What Stays the Same When Everything Changes
Research into digital sociality often encounters, both in academic and non-academic contexts, the claim that there is no point doing such research because the technologies being examined change so fast that analysis can never keep up. This article criticises any such claim. First, the article examines three kinds of 'sameness' that span the introduction of different technologies: internet-based text communication, digital platforms and informatio…
Does online anonymity undermine the sense of personal responsibility
This article begins by exploring the media visibility of anonymity online, in particular in relation to trolls and online bullying. It then explores anonymity in the case of Chelsea Manning who leaked US military secrets but only lost anonymity sometime after her leak was made public. This discussion explores issues of responsibility and the reasons for being anonymous. The article then briefly discusses anonymity based on the discussion of the M…
Researching the digital economy and the creative economy: Free gaming shards and commercialised making at the intersection of digitality and creativity
Despite the creative economy relying on digital technology and the digital economy needing creative input, policy and research alike tend to miss or underestimate interdependencies between these two economies. This article argues for the importance of acknowledging interdependencies and overlaps between the cultural and creative economy and the digital economy – while likewise refraining from implicitly conflating the two. Starting from a compara…
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