{"product_id":"patterns-theory-of-the-digital-society-paperback-softback-9781509558223","title":"Patterns; Theory of the Digital Society (Paperback \/ softback) 9781509558223","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\"\u003e9781509558223, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 10 May 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e268 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.4 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.431 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\u003ePreface\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow to think about digitalisation?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA technological-sociological kind of intuition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEarly technology pushes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginal and copy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProductive wrong and predetermined breaking point\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 The Reference Problem of Digitalisation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFunctionalist questions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConnecting data – offline\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat is the problem?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe uneasiness with the digital culture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe digital discovery of `society´\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmpirical social research as the identification of patterns\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e`Society´ as digitalisation material\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe cyborg as a means of overcoming society?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2 The Idiosyncracy of the Digital\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe inexact exactness of the world\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe particular idiosyncracy of data\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCybernetics and the feedback of information\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe digitalisation of communication\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe dynamic of closure\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe self-referentiality of the world of data\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3 Multiple Duplications of the World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eData as observers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuplications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDisturbances\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTransverse data-like duplications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe trace of the trace and discrete duplications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTraces, Patterns, Networks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4 Simplicity and Multiplicity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMedium and form\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCoding and programming\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe digital simplicity of society\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncreased options\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSapere aude as it is reflected in digitalisation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExcursus: Digital Metabolism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5 Functioning Technology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe function of the technological\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDigital technology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCommunicating technology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe function of functioning\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLow-level technology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDemonised technology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInvisible technology and the Turing test\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe privilege of making mistakes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6 Learning Technology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDecisions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbductive machines?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDistributed intelligence?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnthropological and technological questions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExperiencing and acting machines\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncompleteness, temporariness, systemic paradoxes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArtificial, bodily, incomplete intelligence\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7 The Internet as a Mass Media\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSurplus of meaning deals\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynchronisation function\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynchronisation and socialisation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSelectivity, mediality and voice in the Internet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWatching the watching\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eComplexity and overheating\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Internet as an archive of all kinds of statements\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntelligence in the mode of Future perfect\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8 Endangered Privacy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe improbability of informational self-determination\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA new structural change of the public?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHazards\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrivacy 10\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrivacy 10 as a result of Big Data?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBig Data and privacy 20\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRescuing privacy?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9 Debug: Sociology Reborn from the Spirit of Digitalisation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDigital dynamic and social complexity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn 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\u003eIndex\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\" 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