Executions: Power and Expression in Networked and Computational Media

334 Pages·2017·4.982 MB·English

by  Eric Snodgrass

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Doctoral Dissertation in Media and Communication Studies
Dissertation Series: New Media, Public Spheres and Forms of Expression
Faculty: Culture and Society
Department: School of Arts and Communication, K3
Malmö University
Information about time and place of public defence,
and electronic version of dissertation:
http://hdl.handle.net/2043/22834
CC* Eric Snodgrass, 2017
Designed by Sarah Garcin & Bruno Vanderaert
Printed by Service Point Holmbergs, Malmö 2017
Supported by grants from The National Dissertation Council
and The Doctoral Foundation
ISBN 978-91-7104-506-5 (print)
ISBN 978-91-7104-507-2 (pdf)
* This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.
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Eric snodgrass
ExEcutions
Power and Expression in Networked
and Computational Media
Malmö University 2017
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contE nts
9 ACKNowlEDGEMENTS
11 1 INTroDUCTIoN
23 2 APProACHES
23 Compositional affordances
31 Genealogies of media and technology
38 Multi-sited, intersecting relations of power
47 Choice of cases
Compositional questions of exeCution
53 3 SITES oF ExECUTIoN
54 Instruction pointer
55 Protection and provocation
60 (…skins, bodies, tapes, hands…)
66 The relational and actualising cut of execution
71 Cut Piece
79 4 ProCESSING PowEr
80 Techniques of coercion and efficiency
85 Automation (habituating coercion)
88 Invisible hands (habituating efficiency)
99 5 wHAT IS ExECUTING HErE?
99 Interpreters
108 open machines, open questions
113 Section summary
platform and projeCtion
119 6 oNE / EASy / ClICK: FACEBooK’S lIKE BUTToN
120 Interface as relational threshold
123 Units of expression: clicks and counters
128 Propagation
130 Prototyping likes
134 Collective processing
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141 7 ENGINEErING rElATIoNS: APIS AND
THE STrUCTUrING oF NETworKED
FlowS AND CoNNECTIoN
141 Executable structures for exchange: Protocols
and web APIs
143 Multipliers: feeding a social graph via Social Plugins,
HTTP cookies and more
151 Social graph
153 Friction-less flow: executions in the background
164 real abstractions
168 leaky abstractions: “fake news,” voter microtargeting
and the long tails of web 2.0 and user profiling
178 Platformisation and “social infrastructure”
187 8 DIAMoND rEyNolDS wAS lIVE
190 “Police”
195 oppositional gazing
202 Intersecting, interactive relations of power
219 oppositional coding
227 Section summary
eCologies of the exeCutable
233 9 EUroPEAN orIENTATIoNS AND
INFrASTrUCTUrES
oF VIolENCE AT SEA
235 Violence in the electromagnetic frontier
241 orientations and vectors
246 Boats as material discursive agents of movement
250 Visual politics of boat migration
258 orientating the sea
284 orientating otherwise and anew
287 10 wATCHING THE MED: ACTIVE AND oPPoSITIoNAl
INFrASTrUCTUrES For INTErVENTIoN
AND rESISTANCE AT SEA
289 Infrastructures for intervention
294 oppositional infrastructures
300 Section summary
303 11 FINAl rEMArKS
309 rEFErENCES
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