
The Quirks of Digital Culture
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This book asks how can we understand the chaos and messiness of on-demand culture? Beer suggests that we focus on the quirks and use these as openings to see inside patterns and dynamics of these new cultural formations. By exploring the strange quirks that typify our new on-demand culture, this book seeks to answer these questions. The Quirks of Digital Culture is a guide to understanding the complex and unsettling cultural present, whilst also casting an eye on how our consumption and cultural experiences may unfold in what seems like an unpredictable future.
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'One of Britain's sharpest observers of the internet' -- Peter Pomerantsev, Senior Fellow, LSE and the Author of 'Nothing is True and Everything is Possible, Adventures in Modern Russia' As digital culture has been lifted on to media platforms, everyday experiences are full of quirks, says Beer, and often unnoticed, these quirks accumulate and occupy daily experiences. He suggests that it is possible that they can be the means by which people come, in aggregate, to know the world and to have sense of their place in it. He deals with just a few of those quirks, only scratching the surface, he says, only touching upon the underpinning patterns and dynamics. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. -- Annotation (c)2019 * (protoview.com) * "Byrevealing the intricacies and complexities of contemporary culture, this book
opens up new ways to understand and interpret everyday experiences and does so
in a way that is accessible even in today's attention-poor environment. In a
nutshell, this is a highly recommended book." -- LSE Review of Books
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Chapter 3. Total Recall: The Past, Present and Future
Chapter 4. The Comforts and Discomforts of Connection
Chapter 5. The Demands of On-demand Culture
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