New Noise: A Cultural Sociology of Digital Disruption

179 Pages·2013·5.136 MB·English

by  Simon Lindgren

NEW NOISE
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NEW NOISE

A Cultural Sociology
of Digital Disruption

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Lindgren, Simon.
New noise: a cultural sociology of digital disruption / Simon Lindgren.
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1. Digital media. 2. Social networks. 3. Digital divide. I. Title.
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments vii
Foreword ix
Chapter 1. The Double Trap 1
Chapter 2. In Search of Space 19
Chapter 3. Shapes, Relations, Structures 37
Chapter 4. Hacktivist Mobilization 49
Chapter 5. Network Politics 65
Chapter 6. *.Sub Culture 79
Chapter 7. Holy Shit! It Works!! 93
Chapter 8. Plural Reactions 111
Chapter 9. The Subactivist Challenge 125
Chapter 10. A Cultural Sociology of Digital Disruption 139
Works Cited 151
Index 161
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Some of the empirical work presented in this book has also been reported else-
where. Chapter 4 is based on an article published in New Media and Society
(Lindgren & Lundström, 2011), and chapter 7has been published in a slightly
different form in the European Journal of Communication (Lindgren, 2012).
Chapter 8 builds on a text that was included in Media, Culture and Society
(Lindgren, 2011), and chapter 9 draws heavily on a piece from Convergence
(Lindgren & Linde, 2012). I would like to thank my co-authors Jessica Linde
and Ragnar Lundström for their valuable contributions. The writing of this
book has been partly funded by the Swedish Research Council (through the
project Filesharing and Sense of Justice), the Knowledge Foundation (through
the program YouTube as a Performative Arena), and the Swedish Council for
Working Life and Social Research (through the project Social Media and Polit-
ical Participation).
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