Seeing Like a Platform
an inquiry into the condition of digital modernity
$88.35
- Paperback
154 pages
- Release Date
29 January 2025
Summary
Seeing Like a Platform: Power, Algorithms, and the Digital Reshaping of Society
Power needs abstraction to make the unwieldy complexity of the social world legible and manageable. The proposition at the heart of Seeing Like a Platform is that digital technology brings new metaphors through which power operates. While industrial modernity saw society as a machinery to be designed according to detailed blueprints, digital modernity views society as organic and alive,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781032354330 |
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| ISBN-10: | 103235433X |
| Series: | Complexity in Social Science |
| Author: | Petter Törnberg, Justus Uitermark |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 154 |
| Release Date: | 29 January 2025 |
| Weight: | 264g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 235mm x 156mm |
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About The Author
Petter Törnberg
Petter Törnberg is Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science at the University of Amsterdam. He studies the intersection of AI, social media, and politics using computational methods and digital data for critical inquiry. His most recent book is Intimate Communities of Hate: Why Social Media Fuels Far-Right Extremism (with Anton Törnberg).
Justus Uitermark is a geographer and sociologist at the University of Amsterdam. He holds a chair in Urban Geography and directs the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research. Uitermark has written widely on cities, social movements, and digital platforms. His books include On Display: Instagram, the Self, and the City (with John Boy), Cities and Social Movements (with Walter Nicholls), and Dynamics of Power in Dutch Integration Politics.
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