{"product_id":"the-participatory-condition-in-the-darin-barney-9780816697717","title":"The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age: Volume 51","description":"\u003cp\u003eJust what is the \"participatory condition\"? It is the situation in which taking part in something with others has become both environmental and normative. The fact that we have always participated does not mean we have always lived under the participatory condition. What is distinctive about the present is the extent to which the everyday social, economic, cultural, and political activities that comprise simply being in the world have been thematized and organized around the priority of participation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStructured along four axes investigating the relations between participation and politics, surveillance, openness, and aesthetics, \u003ci\u003eThe Participatory Condition in the Digital Age\u003c\/i\u003e comprises fifteen essays that explore the promises, possibilities, and failures of contemporary participatory media practices as related to power, Occupy Wall Street, the Arab Spring uprisings, worker-owned cooperatives for the post-Internet age; paradoxes of participation, media activism, open source projects; participatory civic life; commercial surveillance; contemporary art and design; and education. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book represents the most comprehensive and transdisciplinary endeavor to date to examine the nature, place, and value of participation in the digital age. Just as in 1979, when Jean-François Lyotard proposed that \"the postmodern condition\" was characterized by the questioning of historical grand narratives, \u003ci\u003eThe Participatory Condition in the Digital Age\u003c\/i\u003e investigates how participation has become a central preoccupation of our time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors: Mark Andrejevic, Pomona College; Bart Cammaerts, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); Nico Carpentier, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB - Free University of Brussels) and Charles University in Prague; Julie E. Cohen, Georgetown University; Kate Crawford, MIT; Alessandro Delfanti, University of Toronto; Christina Dunbar-Hester, University of Southern California; Rudolf Frieling, California College of Arts and the San Francisco Art Institute; Salvatore Iaconesi, La Sapienza University of Rome and ISIA Design Florence; Jason Edward Lewis, Concordia University; Rafael Lozano-Hemmer; Graham Pullin, University of Dundee; Trebor Scholz, The New School in New York City; Cayley Sorochan, McGill University; Bernard Stiegler, Institute for Research and Innovation in Paris; Krzysztof Wodiczko, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Jillian C. York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Darin Barney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081669771X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816697717\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90d","brand":"Darin Barney","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086952378623,"sku":"9780816697717","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5a225a4a-9a52-472d-8e59-7ee9d4edb893.jpg?v=1769097444","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-participatory-condition-in-the-darin-barney-9780816697717","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}