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Digital communication and social media have taken over our lives. In this contrarian reflection on digitized life, Byung-Chul Han counters the cheerleaders for Twitter revolutions and Facebook activism by arguing that digital communication is in fact responsible for the disintegration of community and public space and is slowly eroding any possibility for real political action and meaningful political discourse. In the predigital, analog era, by the time an angry letter to the editor had been composed, mailed, and received, the immediate agitation had passed. Today, digital communication enables instantaneous, impulsive reaction, meant to express and stir up outrage on the spot. "The shitstorm,ż writes Han, żrepresents an authentic phenomenon of digital communication.ż

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Book category Books in English Computing & information technology Digital lifestyle Internet guides & online services

• Full title: In the Swarm
• Author: Byung-Chul Han, Erik Butler
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 104
• EAN: 9780262533362
• ISBN: 0262533367
• ID: 14423295
• Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
• Weight: 98 g
• Dimensions: 178 × 117 × 8 mm
• Date of publishing: 07. April 2017

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