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Critical Theory and the Digital

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ID19937826
AuthorsDavid M Berry (0000-0002-7737-5586, corresponding author)
Year2014
Publication date2014-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueCritical Theory and the Digital (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBloomsbury Academic (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5040/9781501302114
OpenAlexW34206093
Open LibraryOL26045739M
ISBN9781501302114
LanguageEN
Citations received60

This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume offers an original analysis of the role of the digital in today’s society. It rearticulates critical theory by engaging it with the challenges of the digital revolution to show how the digital is changing the ways in which we lead our politics, societies, economies, media, and even private lives. In particular, the work examines how the enlightenment values embedded within the culture and materiality of digital technology can be used to explain the changes that are occurring across society. Critical Theory and the Digital draws from the critical concepts developed by critical theorists to demonstrate how the digital needs to be understood within a dialectic of potentially democratizing and totalizing technical power. By relating critical theory to aspects of a code-based digital world and the political economy that it leads to, the book introduces the importance of the digital code in the contemporary

Aesthetics · Art · Critical theory · Digital culture · Digital media · Digital Revolution · Digital society · Economics · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Materiality (auditing) · Media studies · Neoclassical economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Digital Games and Media · Law · Media, Communication, and Education · Philosophy · Social Media and Politics · Essays · Information society · Information Technology · Social aspects

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Unique citing works60
Citations per year5,45
Citation span2015 - 2026 (12)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 20

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