TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bollmer,Grant
TI  - Inhuman networks: social media and the archaeology of connection 
SN  - 9781501316159
AV  - P94.6 .B65 2016
U1  - 302.23 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York, NY, London
PB  - Bloomsbury Academic
KW  - Mass media and culture
KW  - Mass media and technology
KW  - Social media
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Media Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
KW  - General
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - fast
KW  - Social Media
KW  - gnd
KW  - Soziologie
KW  - 05.38 content aspects of electronic communication
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Connectivity, Flow, Citizenship, Archaeology -- Part One. Network Archaeologies: 1. Biology: Vital Technologies, Anatomical Networks; 2. Society: Railroads, Red Scares, and Racism; 3. Economy: Banking on a Networked Society; Coda: Universitality: From Network Archaeologies to Nodal Citizenship -- Part Two. Nodal Citizens: 4. Death: Living Forever on Social Media; 5. Labor: Giving Life to Data; 6. Truth: The Politics of Performing the Total Self -- Part Three. Beyond Social Media, or, a World Without People: 7. Contagion: The Inevitable Failure of Connectivity; 8. (Political) Theory: How to Disempower Friends and Pathologize People
N2  - "Social media's connectivity is often thought to be a manifestation of human nature buried until now, revealed only through the diverse technologies of the participatory internet. Rather than embrace this view, Inhuman Networks: Social Media and the Archaeology of Connection argues that the human nature revealed by social media imagines network technology and data as models for behavior online. Covering a wide range of historical and interdisciplinary subjects, Grant Bollmer examines the emergence of "the network" as a model for relation in the 1700s and 1800s and follows it through marginal, often forgotten articulations of technology, biology, economics, and the social. From this history, Bollmer examines contemporary controversies surrounding social media, extending out to the influence of network models on issues of critical theory, politics, popular science, and neoliberalism. By moving through the past and present of network media, Inhuman Networks demonstrates how contemporary network culture unintentionally repeats debates over the limits of Western modernity to provide an idealized future where "the human" is interchangeable with abstract, flowing data connected through well-managed, distributed networks."--; "Examines how "the human" is produced in relation to technological changes, foregrounding the necessity of theoretical and archaeological perspectives for understanding contemporary media culture"--
ER  -