The Digital Condition
by Felix Stalder · Felix Stalder
Stalder argues that three forces define contemporary culture: referentiality, communality, and algorithmicity. Readers gain a theoretical vocabulary for analysing how remix practice, networked communities, and automated decision-making reshape meaning-making beyond the mass-media era.
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