Description
Book Synopsis
Off the Network is a fresh and authoritative examination of how the hidden logic of the Internet, social media, and the digital network is changing users’ understanding of the world—and why that should worry us. Ulises Ali Mejias suggests how we might begin to rethink the logic of the network and question its ascendancy.
Trade Review"Interesting and insightful."—Technical Communication
"Scholars of Internet- mediated communication and technology should read this, since it challenges the popular framework of the Internet."—International Journal of Communication
Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Thinking the Network
1. The Network as Method for Organizing the World
2. The Privatization of Social Life
3. Computers as Socializing Tools
4. Acting Inside and Outside the Network
Part II. Unthinking the Network
5. Strategies for Unmapping Networks
6. Proximity and Conflict
7. Collaboration and Freedom
Part III. Intensifying the Network
8. The Limits of Liberation Technologies
9. The Outside of Networks as Method for Acting in the World
Notes
Bibliography
Index
