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Media type:
E-Book
Title:
Interpreting networks
:
hermeneutics, actor-network theory & new media
Contains:
cover Interpreting Networks ; Contents; Introduction; 1. Hermeneutics; And we can't whistle it either!; Getting into the Circle in the Right Way; The Autonomy of the Text; Knowing is Doing; Relativism and Critique; 2. Actor-Networks; Is ANT a Network Science?; On Systems, Complexity, Cybernetic Machines, and Networks; What is a System?; Ecology: System or Network?; Observing Networks; Distributed Agency-Mediators and Intermediaries; Ethnology of the Moderns; Circulating Reference and Immutable Mobiles; Social Space is Flat; Translation; 3. New Media; Media Studies; What are New Media?
Mixed RealityLayers and Filters; The Social Operating System; Network Pragmatics; Connectivity; Flow; Communication; Private and Public; Mass Media and Representation; The Socio-Sphere; The Collective; Transparency; Participation; Authenticity; Flexibility; Conclusion; Bibliography
Footnote:
Description based upon print version of record
Description:
Biographical note: David J. Krieger is co-director at the Institute for Communication & Leadership, Lucerne, Switzerland. His research focus is on new media, communication, system theory, and network theory. Andréa Belliger is pro-rector of the Teacher's Training University of Lucerne and co-director of the Institute for Communication & Leadership. Her research focus is on e-society, new media, communication science, and e-health.
After postmodern critique has deconstructed, decentered, and displaced order and identity on all levels, we are faced with the Humpty Dumpty question of how to put the pieces back together again. This book brings together the seldom associated discourses of hermeneutics, actor-network theory, and new media in order to formulate a theory of a global network society. Hermeneutics re-opens the question of unity in a fragmented world. Actor-network theory reinterprets the construction of meaning as networking. New media studies show how networking is done. Networks arise, are maintained, and are transformed by communicative actions that are governed by network norms that make up a social operating system. The social operating system offers an alternative to the imperatives of algorithmic logic, functionality, and systemic closure that dominate present day solutions to problems of over-complexity in all areas. The world of meaning constructed by the social operating system is a mixed reality in which filters and layers replace the physical restraints of space and time as parameters of knowing and acting. Society and nature, humans and non-humans come together in a socio-sphere consisting of hybrid, heterogeneous actor-networks. This book proposes reinterpreting hermeneutics as networking and networking as guided by a social operating system whose norms are based on new media. There emerges a theory for a global network society described by different concepts than those typical of Western modernity.