{"product_id":"patterns-theory-of-the-digital-society-hardback-9781509558216","title":"Patterns; Theory of the Digital Society (Hardback) 9781509558216","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePatterns\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTheory of the Digital Society\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eArmin Nassehi (Author), Mirko Wittwar (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509558216, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 10 May 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e268 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 16 x 2.8 cm, 0.522 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\u003cp\u003e\"Nassehi’s theory is neither dystopic nor utopic, but asks what digital technology is for. Here the ultimate simplicity of zeros and ones describes an infinite complexity, itself structured into patterns. These patterns are the data that pervade, indeed are constitutive of, the entire social life as we know it. A mind-numbingly simple thesis that indeed works. Read this book.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eScott Lash, Oxford University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"The pandemic showed how much we depend on digital technologies for our connections to others, and at the same time many areas of the world and disadvantaged social groups continue to experience digital social inequities. Armin Nassehi offers a fresh perspective on digital societies through the lens of European sociological theories that have, until now, been little adopted in this area of inquiry.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eDeborah Lupton, UNSW Sydney\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWe are inclined to assume that digital technologies have suddenly revolutionized everything – including our relationships, our forms of work and leisure, and even our democracies – in just a few years. Armin Nassehi puts forward a new theory of digital society that turns this assumption on its head. Rather than treating digital technologies as an independent causal force that is transforming social life, he asks: what problem does digitalization solve?  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e When we pose the question in this way, we can see, argues Nassehi, that digitalization helps societies to deal with and reduce complexity by using coded numbers to process information. We can also see that modern societies had a digital structure long before computer technologies were developed – already in the nineteenth century, for example, statistical pattern recognition technologies were being used in functionally differentiated societies in order to recognize, monitor and control forms of human behaviour. Digital technologies were so successful in such a short period of time and were able to penetrate so many areas of society so quickly precisely because of a pre-existing sensitivity that prepared modern societies for digital development.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This highly original book lays the foundations for a theory of the digital society that will be of value to everyone interested in the growing presence of digital technologies in our lives.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePreface to the English Edition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e Preface\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e How to think about digitalisation? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A technological-sociological kind of intuition \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Early technology pushes \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Original and copy \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Productive wrong and predetermined breaking point \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 1 The Reference Problem of Digitalisation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Functionalist questions\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Connecting data – offline \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What is the problem? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The uneasiness with the digital culture \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The digital discovery of `society´ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Empirical social research as the identification of patterns \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e `Society´ as digitalisation material \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The cyborg as a means of overcoming society? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 2 The Idiosyncracy of the Digital\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The inexact exactness of the world \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The particular idiosyncracy of data \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Cybernetics and the feedback of information \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The digitalisation of communication \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The dynamic of closure \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The self-referentiality of the world of data \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 3 Multiple Duplications of the World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Data as observers \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Duplications \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Disturbances \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Transverse data-like duplications \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The trace of the trace and discrete duplications \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Traces, Patterns, Networks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 4 Simplicity and Multiplicity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Medium and form \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Coding and programming\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The digital simplicity of society \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Increased options \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sapere aude as it is reflected in digitalisation \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Excursus: Digital Metabolism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 5 Functioning Technology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The function of the technological \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Digital technology \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Communicating technology\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The function of functioning \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Low-level technology \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Demonised technology \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Invisible technology and the Turing test \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The privilege of making mistakes \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 6 Learning Technology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Decisions \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Abductive machines? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Distributed intelligence? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Anthropological and technological questions \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Experiencing and acting machines \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Incompleteness, temporariness, systemic paradoxes \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Artificial, bodily, incomplete intelligence\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 7 The Internet as a Mass Media\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Surplus of meaning deals \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Synchronisation function \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Synchronisation and socialisation\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Selectivity, mediality and voice in the Internet \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Watching the watching \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Complexity and overheating \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Internet as an archive of all kinds of statements \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Intelligence in the mode of Future perfect\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 8 Endangered Privacy \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The improbability of informational self-determination \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A new structural change of the public? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hazards \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Privacy 10 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Privacy 10 as a result of Big Data? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Big Data and privacy 20 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Rescuing privacy? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 9 Debug: Sociology Reborn from the Spirit of Digitalisation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Digital dynamic and social complexity \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e An opportunity for sociology \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNotes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e Index\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\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":52441813483800,"sku":"9781509558216","price":49.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509558216.jpg?v=1785026872","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/patterns-theory-of-the-digital-society-hardback-9781509558216","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}