Digital Cultures: Postmodern Media Education, Subversive Diversity and Neoliberal Subjectivation
David Kergel, "Digital Cultures: Postmodern Media Education, Subversive Diversity and Neoliberal Subjectivation"
English | ISBN: 3658352493 | 2023 | 216 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 3658352493 | 2023 | 216 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
David Kergel explores the questions of how free and self-determined we are in the digital age, whether the Internet encloses us or whether it opens up new spaces for diversity and education. The starting point is the thesis that the Internet is both heritage and future: postmodern spaces of freedom and neoliberal fixations of the electronic age unfold in the ubiquitous cultural space that digital media span. At the same time, the Internet restructures social spaces in the 'analog world', digitalizes self/world relations or forms digital cultures, which in turn form ourselves. For dealing with the ambivalence of the Internet between postmodern diversity and neoliberal subjectification, an understanding of media education based on educational theory is proposed.
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