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Network culture : politics for the information age / Tiziana Terranova.

By: Terranova, Tiziana, 1967-Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Pluto, 2004Description: vii, 184 pISBN: 9781849645003 (ebook)Subject(s): Information technology -- Political aspects | Information society | Computer networks -- Social aspects | Computers and IT | Communication studies | Cultural studies | Ethical & social aspects of IT | Politics & government | Political structures: democracy | Public administrationGenre/Form: Online access: Click here to access online Also available in printed form ISBN 9780745317489Summary: Tiziana Terranova investigates the political dimension of the network culture in which we live, and explores what the new forms of communication and organization might mean for our understanding of power and politics. In an age of email lists and discussion groups, e-zines and weblogs, bringing together users, consumers, workers and activists from around the globe, what kinds of political subjectivity are emerging? What kinds of politics become possible in a time of information overload and media saturation? What structures of power and control operate over a self-organising system like the internet?*BR*In this highly original new work, Tiziana Terranova investigates the political dimension of the network culture in which we now live, and explores what the new forms of communication and organisation might mean for our understanding of power and politics. Terranova engages with key concepts and debates in cultural theory and cultural politics, using examples from media culture, computing, network dynamics, and internet activism within the anti-capitalist and anti-war movements. *BR*Network Culture concludes that the nonlinear network dynamics that link different modes of communication at different levels (from local radio to satellite television, from the national press to the internet, from broadcasting to rumours and conspiracy theories) provide the conditions within which another politics can emerge. This other politics, the book suggests, does not entail the production of a new political discourse or ideology, but the invention of micropolitical tactics able to stand up to new forms of social control.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-178) and index.

Tiziana Terranova investigates the political dimension of the network culture in which we live, and explores what the new forms of communication and organization might mean for our understanding of power and politics. In an age of email lists and discussion groups, e-zines and weblogs, bringing together users, consumers, workers and activists from around the globe, what kinds of political subjectivity are emerging? What kinds of politics become possible in a time of information overload and media saturation? What structures of power and control operate over a self-organising system like the internet?*BR*In this highly original new work, Tiziana Terranova investigates the political dimension of the network culture in which we now live, and explores what the new forms of communication and organisation might mean for our understanding of power and politics. Terranova engages with key concepts and debates in cultural theory and cultural politics, using examples from media culture, computing, network dynamics, and internet activism within the anti-capitalist and anti-war movements. *BR*Network Culture concludes that the nonlinear network dynamics that link different modes of communication at different levels (from local radio to satellite television, from the national press to the internet, from broadcasting to rumours and conspiracy theories) provide the conditions within which another politics can emerge. This other politics, the book suggests, does not entail the production of a new political discourse or ideology, but the invention of micropolitical tactics able to stand up to new forms of social control.

Also available in printed form ISBN 9780745317489

Electronic reproduction. Askews and Holts. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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