A Web of Our Own Making (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781009324793)

There no longer seems any point to criticizing the internet. We indulge in the latest doom-mongering about the evils of social media-on social media. We scroll through routine complaints about the deterioration of our attention spans. We resign ourselves to hating the internet even as we spend much of our waking lives with it. Yet our unthinking surrender to its effects-to the ways it recasts our aims and desires-is itself digital technology's most powerful achievement. A Web of Our Own Making examines how online practices are reshaping our lives outside our notice. Barba-Kay argues that digital technology is a 'natural technology'-a technology so intuitive as to conceal the extent to which it transforms our attention. He shows how and why this technology is reconfiguring knowledge, culture, politics, aesthetics, and theology. The digital revolution is primarily taking place not in Silicon Valley but within each of us.

Author: Ant Barba-Kay
ISBN-10: 1009324799
ISBN-13: 9781009324793
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/11/2023
Pages: 275
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2024