| Description |
301 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Routledge research in information technology and society ; 17 |
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Routledge research in information technology and society ; 17
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1.Disorder and Social Theory -- 2.Robustness and Order in Theories of the Information Society -- 3.Computers, Systems, Instability and Failure -- 4.Networks, Disorder, Unpredictability -- 5.Disorders of Information -- 6.Capitalism and Disinformation -- 7.Software Development -- 8.Software Disorder and Everyday Life -- 9.Finance, Crisis and Informationalism -- 10.Disorders of the Commons, Peer-to-Peer -- 11.Information-Disorder in Academia -- 12.Communication Technology and the Origins of Global Justice Movements |
| Summary |
This book is the first general social analysis that seriously considers the daily experience of information disruption and software failure within contemporary Western society. Through an investigation of informationalism, defined as a contemporary form of capitalism, it describes the social processes producing informational disorder. While most social theory sees disorder as secondary, pathological or uninteresting, this book takes disordering processes as central to social life. The book engages with theories of information society which privilege information order, offering a strong counterpoint centred on "disinformation." Disorder and the Disinformation Society offers a practical agenda, arguing that difficulties in producing software are both inherent to the process of developing software and in the social dynamics of informationalism |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Computer software -- Social aspects.
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Computer networks -- Social aspects.
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Information society.
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Information technology -- Social aspects.
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Information networks -- Social aspects.
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| Author |
Goodman, James, 1965- author
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Zowghi, Didar, author
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Francesca, da Rimini, -approximately 1285, author
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| LC no. |
2014048749 |
| ISBN |
9780415540001 (hardback) |
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