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This volume unravels the debates on the »Participation Age«: Instead of perpetuating visions of social »all-inclusion« or the »digital divide«, the collection reclaims collectivity as an effect of technological and historical conditions. Thinking of participation both as promise and duty, the contributions analyse the attractions and impositions connected to the socio-technical formation of collectivities. The constraints of participation are addressed by focusing on the mutual shaping of user practices and technological environments. It is hence a relational thinking that allows specifying the manifold interconnections of technology, practices and discourses. Besprochen in: GMK-Newsletter, 4 (2016) Zivilgesellschaft Info, 1 (2016)
Participation --- Social participation --- Virtual reality --- Television broadcasting --- Social aspects. --- Social psychology --- Community organization --- Mass communications --- Participation; Digital Media; Relational Thinking; Collectivity; Technology; Internet; Media; Civil Society; Sociology of Media; Political Art; Media Studies --- Civil Society. --- Collectivity. --- Digital Media. --- Internet. --- Media Studies. --- Media. --- Political Art. --- Relational Thinking. --- Sociology of Media. --- Technology.
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"This book explores the ways in which social relations are profoundly changing modern society, arguing that, constituting a reality of their own, social relations will ultimately lead to a new form of society: an after-modern or relational society. Drawing on the thought of Simmel, it extends the idea that society consists essentially of social relations, in order to make sense of the operation of dichotomous forces in society and to examine the emergence of a 'third' in the morphogenetic processes. Through a realist and critical relational sociology, which allows for the fact that human beings are both internal and external to social relations, and therefore to society, the author shows how we are moving towards a new, trans-modern society - one that calls into question the guiding ideas of western modernity, such as the notion of linear progression, that science and technology are the decisive factors of human development, and that culture can entirely supplant nature. As such, it will appeal to sociologists, social theorists, economists, political scientists and social philosophers with interests in relational thought, critical realism and social transformation".
Social interaction. --- Postmodernism Social aspects. --- Human interaction --- Interaction, Social --- Symbolic interaction --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Psychology --- Social psychology --- after-modernity --- critical realism --- modernity --- relational thinking --- relational thought --- Simmel --- social relations --- social transformation --- trans-modern --- western modernity --- Postmodernism --- Globalization --- Social aspects.
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