
1000 Platforms
Ensembles as Ontological Experiments
Adrian Mackenzie(Author)
Bristol University Press
1st Edition
Published on 28. April 2025
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-5292-3739-9 (ISBN)
Description
In today's digital world, platforms are everywhere, shaping our social and cultural landscapes. This groundbreaking book shows how platforms are not just technical systems, but complex networks involving diverse people, practices and values. It explores a wide range of digital platforms, using insights from science and technology studies, anthropology, sociology and cultural theories to offer fresh perspectives on how platforms, media and devices function and evolve.
Blending ethnographic work with technical analysis, this is essential reading for anyone wanting a deeper understanding of the digital age.
Blending ethnographic work with technical analysis, this is essential reading for anyone wanting a deeper understanding of the digital age.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
449 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5292-3739-9 (9781529237399)
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Person
Adrian Mackenzie is Professor of Sociology at the Australian National University.
Content
1. Introducing 1000 Platforms
2. Edging: From Terminals to Interfaces
3. Shading: Images and Their Associations
4. Hashing Many Containers
5. Embedding and Embodying
6. Closures and Their Stagings
7. Alignments and Earth
8. Implications
2. Edging: From Terminals to Interfaces
3. Shading: Images and Their Associations
4. Hashing Many Containers
5. Embedding and Embodying
6. Closures and Their Stagings
7. Alignments and Earth
8. Implications