TY  - BOOK
AU  - Krieger,David J.
AU  - Belliger,Andréa
TI  - Interpreting Networks: Hermeneutics, Actor-Network Theory & New Media 
T2  - Digitale Gesellschaft
SN  - 9783837628111
U1  - 302.23101 22//ger
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Bielefeld : 
PB  - transcript Verlag, 
KW  - Actor-Network Theory
KW  - Constructivism
KW  - Digital Media
KW  - Digital Society
KW  - Internet
KW  - Media Studies
KW  - Media Theory
KW  - Network Society
KW  - New Media
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Social Relations
KW  - Social Theory
KW  - Sociological Theory
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - After postmodern critique has deconstructed, decentered, and displaced order and identity on all levels, we are faced with the Humpty Dumpty question of how to put the pieces back together again. This book brings together the seldom associated discourses of hermeneutics, actor-network theory, and new media in order to formulate a theory of a global network society. Hermeneutics re-opens the question of unity in a fragmented world. Actor-network theory reinterprets the construction of meaning as networking. New media studies show how networking is done. Networks arise, are maintained, and are transformed by communicative actions that are governed by network norms that make up a social operating system. The social operating system offers an alternative to the imperatives of algorithmic logic, functionality, and systemic closure that dominate present day solutions to problems of over-complexity in all areas. The world of meaning constructed by the social operating system is a mixed reality in which filters and layers replace the physical restraints of space and time as parameters of knowing and acting. Society and nature, humans and non-humans come together in a socio-sphere consisting of hybrid, heterogeneous actor-networks. This book proposes reinterpreting hermeneutics as networking and networking as guided by a social operating system whose norms are based on new media. There emerges a theory for a global network society described by different concepts than those typical of Western modernity
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783839428115
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783839428115/original
ER  -