Contemporary art and the digitization of everyday life /

"Digitization is the animating force of everyday life. Rather than defining it as a technology or a medium, Contemporary Art and the Digitization of Everyday Life argues that digitization is a sociohistorical process that is contributing to the erosion of democracy and an increase in political...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kraynak, Janet (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
Subjects:	Art and technology > 20th century. Art and technology > 21st century. Computer art > Social aspects > 20th century. Computer art > Social aspects > 21st century. Art and society > 20th century. Art and society > 21st century. Art and society. Art and technology. 1900-2099

Table of Contents:

Introduction : Digitization and anti-democracy : the perils of digital utopianism
Network effects : networked centralities and political marginalization
Collaboration and the hive mind : social networks and the gendering of the economy
Therapeutic participation and the museological user : on the museum in the age of surveillance capitalism
Modularity and the alterities of search : racialization, difference, and computational systems
Audible presents and imaginary futures : on silence and the technological imaginary
In lieu of a conclusion.