{"product_id":"inhuman-networks-grant-bollmer-9781501340178","title":"Inhuman Networks: Social Media and the Archaeology of Connection","description":"Social media's connectivity is often thought to be a manifestation of human nature buried until now, revealed only through the diverse technologies of the participatory internet. Rather than embrace this view, \u003ci\u003eInhuman Networks: Social Media and the Archaeology of Connection\u003c\/i\u003e argues that the human nature revealed by social media imagines network technology and data as models for behavior online. Covering a wide range of historical and interdisciplinary subjects, Grant Bollmer examines the emergence of \"the network+? as a model for relation in the 1700s and 1800s and follows it through marginal, often forgotten articulations of technology, biology, economics, and the social. From this history, Bollmer examines contemporary controversies surrounding social media, extending out to the influence of network models on issues of critical theory, politics, popular science, and neoliberalism. By moving through the past and present of network media, \u003ci\u003eInhuman Networks\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how contemporary network culture unintentionally repeats debates over the limits of Western modernity to provide an idealized future where \"the human+? is interchangeable with abstract, flowing data connected through well-managed, distributed networks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Grant Bollmer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501340174\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501340178\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Continnuum-3PL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/22\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d","brand":"Grant Bollmer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44756733755647,"sku":"9781501340178","price":47.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f2fe2fda-7627-4d09-813c-cbe8b2433742.jpg?v=1706593719","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/inhuman-networks-grant-bollmer-9781501340178","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}