Thomas, Neal,

Becoming-social in a networked age / Neal Thomas. - First edition. - 1 online resource - Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture .

chapter 1 On the Notion of a Formatted Subject -- chapter 2 The Epistemically Formatted Subject -- chapter 3 The Performatively Formatted Subject -- chapter 4 The Signaletically Formatted Subject -- chapter 5 The Allagmatically Formatted Subject -- chapter 6 Conclusion -- Toward an Enunciative Informatics.

"This book examines the semiotic effects of protocols and algorithms at work in popular social media systems, bridging philosophical conversations in human-computer interaction (HCI) and information systems (IS) design with contemporary work in critical media, technology and software studies. Where most research into social media is sociological in scope, Neal Thomas shows how the underlying material-semiotic operations of social media now crucially define what it means to be social in a networked age. He proposes that we consider social media platforms as computational processes of collective individuation that produce, rather than presume, forms of subjectivity and sociality."--Provided by publisher.

9781315195629 9781351764599

10.4324/9781315195629 doi


Online social networks.
Social media.

HM742 / .T46 2018

302.231 / T459

2017 | The Technical University of Kenya Library | +254(020) 2219929, 3341639, 3343672 | library@tukenya.ac.ke | Haile Selassie Avenue