{"product_id":"digital-life-hardback-9781509541058","title":"Digital Life (Hardback) 9781509541058","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDigital Life\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTim Markham (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509541058, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 29 May 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e208 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.8 x 1.8 cm, 0.363 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“With this remarkable new book, Tim Markham will be recognised as one of the key theorists of digital media use in everyday living. His phenomenological approach is distinctive and his arguments make an original and valuable contribution to current debates in media studies.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShaun Moores, University of Sunderland\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Tim Markham’s \u003ci\u003eDigital Life\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful and bold statement that our everyday interactions with and through media are ethically and politically meaningful. Erudite, wide-ranging and profound, it offers nothing less than a re-energized philosophy of human life in a media-saturated world.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Frosh, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“[Markham’s] call on us to find ethics and politics within (and not outside of) the digital is inspiring... [the book] significantly contributes to defining the significance of media studies to contemporary concerns about what it means to live meaningfully and ethically in a ‘superconnected’ world.”\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEuropean Journal of Communication\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eConventional wisdom suggests that the pervasiveness of digital media into our everyday lives is undermining cherished notions of politics and ethics. Is this concern unfounded?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this daring new book, Tim Markham argues that what it means to live ethically and politically is realized \u003ci\u003ethrough\u003c\/i\u003e, not in spite of, the everyday experience of digital life. Drawing on a wide range of philosophers from Hegel and Heidegger to Levinas and Butler, he investigates what is really at stake amid the constant distractions of our media-saturated world, the way we present ourselves to that world through social media, and the relentless march of data into every aspect of our lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA provocation to think differently about digital media and what it is doing to us, \u003ci\u003eDigital Life\u003c\/i\u003e offers timely insights into distraction and compassion fatigue, privacy and surveillance, identity and solidarity. It is essential reading for scholars and advanced students of media and communication.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction 1 \u003cp\u003e2 The Care Deficit 28\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Affordances of Affect 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Data, Surveillance and Apathy 63\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Everyday Stakes of Being 79\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Experience and Identity 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Everyday Lives of Digital Infrastructures 114\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Selfing in a Digital World 133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 150\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 162\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Society \u0026amp; culture: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Society \u0026amp; culture: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Society%20\u0026amp;%20culture:%20general%20%5BJF%5D%22\"\u003eJF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52441803882776,"sku":"9781509541058","price":45.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509541058.jpg?v=1785026123","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/digital-life-hardback-9781509541058","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}