Seeing Like a Platform
An Inquiry into the Condition of Digital Modernity
Series: Complexity in Social Science;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 29 January 2025
- ISBN 9781032354347
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages164 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 460 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 9 Illustrations, black & white; 9 Halftones, black & white 633
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Short description:
While industrial modernity saw society as a machinery to be designed according to detailed blueprints, digital modernity views society as organic and alive, to be herded and nudged through digital infrastructures, AI, and algorithms.This book explores the history, meaning and far-reaching consequences of this epistemological shift.
MoreLong description:
Power needs abstraction, to make the unwieldy complexity of the social world legible and manageable. The proposition at the heart of Seeing Like a Platform is that digital technology brings new metaphors through which power operates. While industrial modernity saw society as a machinery to be designed according to detailed blueprints, digital modernity views society as organic and alive, to be herded and nudged through digital infrastructures, AI, and algorithms.
Seeing Like a Platform explores the history, meaning, and far-reaching consequences of this epistemological shift. From social movements to Wikipedia, from digital platforms to city planning, from social science to media, society is being redefined by ideas from complexity science. While complexity offers a vision of a self-organized society freed from hierarchies and overbearing bureaucracies, it simultaneously enables new forms of domination and control.
Through theoretical reflections and case studies, Seeing Like a Platform offers an inquiry into digital modernity. Accessibly written and broad ranging, it is an essential reading for scholars, students, and practitioners in fields such as sociology, political science, urban studies, and technology studies. It will also interest anyone keen to understand the profound impact of digital technologies on governance, social organization, and everyday life.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.
MoreTable of Contents:
1. Introduction
2. The social science of complexity
3. Complex cities: Longing for Wikitopia
4. Complex bureaucracies: Self-organization in Wikipedia
5. Complex media: The epistemology of digital capitalism
6. Complex contention: Anonymous’ power dynamics
7. Digital Platforms: Complexity and power in the digital economy
8. Conclusion: The biopolitics of Artificial Intelligence
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