On Editorialization: Structuring Space and Authority in the Digital Age - Softcover

Vitali-Rosati, Marcello

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9492302209 ISBN 13: 9789492302205

Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, 2018

Synopsis

In On Editorialization: Structuring Space and Authority in the Digital Age Marcello Vitali-Rosati examines how authority changes in the digital era. Authority seems to have vanished in the age of the web, since the spatial relationships that authority depends on are thought to have levelled out: there are no limits or boundaries, no hierarchies or organized structures anymore. Vitali-Rosati claims the opposite to be the case: digital space is well-structured and material and has specific forms of authority. Editorialization is one key process that organizes this space and thus brings into being digital authority. Investigating this process of editorialization, Vitali-Rosati reveals how politics can be reconceived in the digital age. Marcello Vitali-Rosati is Associate Professor in the Department of French Literature at the University of Montreal and holds the Canada Research Chair on Digital Textualities. In his research he develops a philosophical approach to the changes brought by digital technologies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9492302209
• ISBN 13: 9789492302205
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 114