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Author Packer, Jeremy, 1970- author.

Title The prison house of the circuit : politics of control from analog to digital / Jeremy Packer, Paula Nuñez de Villavicencio, Alexander Monea, Kathleen Oswald, Kate Maddalena, and Joshua Reeves
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 310 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents An Introduction to the Circuit -- 1. How to Make a Soldier into a Medium: Docile Bodies in the Signaling Circuit -- 2. Soldiers in the Circuit: Media and Medicine in the First World War -- 3. Police Circuits: Render Automatic All the Mechanisms of Society -- 4. Circuitous Maximus: Automobility, Flow, and Driverless Futures -- 5. How We All Were Committed: Automating Medial Madness from Eyeglasses to Google Glass -- 6. Media Genealogical Method
Summary "Through the conceptual vocabulary of the circuit, The Prison House of the Circuit presents a history of digital media as well as a provocative model for thinking about governance and media. The authors ultimately demonstrate how contemporary media came to be mechanisms that create frictionless circulation to maximize control, efficacy, and state power"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 24, 2023)
Subject Digital media -- Social aspects
Social control.
Information technology -- Social aspects
Online social networks.
Social participation.
Digital media -- Social aspects
Information technology -- Social aspects
Online social networks
Social control
Social participation
Form Electronic book
Author Nuñez de Villavicencio, Paula, 1994- author.
Monea, Alexander, author.
Oswald, Kathleen, 1982- author.
Maddalena, Kate, 1978- author.
Reeves, Joshua, author.
LC no. 2022039159
ISBN 9781452968490
1452968497
9781452968483
1452968489