Digital Modernity (Foundations and Trends® in Web Science)

by Kieron O'Hara

0 ratings • 0 reviews • 0 shelved
Book cover for Digital Modernity

Bookhype may earn a small commission from qualifying purchases. Full disclosure.

Modernity is a social, cultural, or historical descriptor for a certain type of society or set of social arrangements. It is a contentious and disputed term, often understood implicitly. It is a way of describing and classifying highly complex, dynamic, and emergent aggregate social phenomena, and so dramatically simplifies such contexts. However, the language of modernity remains attractive to commentators, academics, and policymakers. In this monograph, the author reviews the literature that characterises what is called digital modernity. Digital modernity narratives focus on the possibilities of the data gathered by an ambient data infrastructure, enabled by ubiquitous devices such...Read more
  • ISBN13 9781638281047
  • Publish Date 17 November 2022
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint now publishers Inc