Overview
Explores the complex digital media systems that mediate modern political and social reality
Provides an overview and analysis of the modern media landscape
Argues that the complexity of modern systems poses an existential challenge for our ability to understand and research post-truth politics
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book analyses the relationship between digital media systems and post truth politics. It demonstrates that the complexity of modern systems is an existential challenge for our ability to understand and research these issues. A new theory is proposed for studying complexity, explaining how system interactionism differs from established ideas, including assemblage and actor network theories. After considering the social system of Niklas Luhmann, the author proposes an interactionist methodology better equipped to deal with system complexity. A description of the logical operations of the digital and political systems is provided, establishing precedents for an analysis of the role of hypertext in shaping the emergent digital-politics. The book demonstrates how the principles of system interactionism can guide digital media research into polarisation and political language.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Philip Pond is Lecturer in Digital Media Research Methods at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He previously headed the Digital-Social Systems Lab, building software to research the impact of technology on society. He has written extensively about media and time theory.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Complexity, Digital Media and Post Truth Politics
Book Subtitle: A Theory of Interactive Systems
Authors: Philip Pond
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44537-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-44536-2Published: 17 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-44539-3Published: 17 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-44537-9Published: 16 July 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 255
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Digital/New Media, Culture and Technology, Media and Communication, Cultural Theory, Philosophy of Technology