Add to ORKGThe current rapid social and technological change is giving rise to enormousuncertainties – and a great need for explanation and sense-making. How do weunderstand the digital society? When we talk about the future that we cannot knowand a present that we do not understand, we have no option but to use the conceptual apparatus of the past – with normative, social and economic implications. This primer introduces a series of essays on the politics of metaphors in the digital society. It aims to uncover the hidden assumptions and concepts within our discourses of the digital, piece by piece
In this chapter, I argue that while the current technological revolution may look like one of the pe...
As media environments and communication practices evolve over time, so do theoretical concepts. This...
Although an increasingly digitised society offers a variety of options, it also implies challenges, ...
Since its very early days, metaphors have been used by various powerful social actors to try to conv...
Society is increasingly digitalised and connected, with computers and algorithms mediating much of p...
This study traces the role of metaphors in digital praxis. Digital praxis refers to a more or less c...
In this article, it is argued that social theory must be renewed to comprehend the new power constel...
This paper explores the concept of digital modernity, the extension of narratives of modernity with ...
This book explores activism, research and critique in the age of digital subjects and objects and Bi...
The use of the Technology as Tool conceptual metaphor has long crippled serious consideration of h...
This article analyses the metaphorical imaginative discourse created around the various inventions a...
Digital technology has become embedded into our daily lives. Code is at the heart of this technology...
"Modernity” is a social, cultural or historical descriptor for a certain type of society or set of s...
Critical theory cannot say, today, what the rise of new technologies is changing for the socio-polit...
Although an increasingly digitised society offers a variety of options, it also implies challenges, ...
In this chapter, I argue that while the current technological revolution may look like one of the pe...
As media environments and communication practices evolve over time, so do theoretical concepts. This...
Although an increasingly digitised society offers a variety of options, it also implies challenges, ...
Since its very early days, metaphors have been used by various powerful social actors to try to conv...
Society is increasingly digitalised and connected, with computers and algorithms mediating much of p...
This study traces the role of metaphors in digital praxis. Digital praxis refers to a more or less c...
In this article, it is argued that social theory must be renewed to comprehend the new power constel...
This paper explores the concept of digital modernity, the extension of narratives of modernity with ...
This book explores activism, research and critique in the age of digital subjects and objects and Bi...
The use of the Technology as Tool conceptual metaphor has long crippled serious consideration of h...
This article analyses the metaphorical imaginative discourse created around the various inventions a...
Digital technology has become embedded into our daily lives. Code is at the heart of this technology...
"Modernity” is a social, cultural or historical descriptor for a certain type of society or set of s...
Critical theory cannot say, today, what the rise of new technologies is changing for the socio-polit...
Although an increasingly digitised society offers a variety of options, it also implies challenges, ...
In this chapter, I argue that while the current technological revolution may look like one of the pe...
As media environments and communication practices evolve over time, so do theoretical concepts. This...
Although an increasingly digitised society offers a variety of options, it also implies challenges, ...