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<p><span class="author notFaded" data-width="194">Please excuse the announcement of a new book.</span></p>
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<p><span class="author notFaded" data-width="194">Its probably too expensive to buy, but please considered recommending it to your library.</span></p>
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<p><span class="author notFaded" data-width="194">Jonathan Paul Marshall<span class="contribution" spacing="none"><span class="a-color-secondary">,
</span></span></span><span class="author notFaded" data-width="157">James Goodman,</span>
<span class="author notFaded" data-width="131">Didar Zowghi and Francesca da Rimini
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<p><span class="a-size-large" id="productTitle"><em>Disorder and the Disinformation Society: The Social Dynamics of Information, Networks and Software
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<p><span class="a-size-large">310 pages US$140.00</span></p>
<p><span class="a-size-large">ISBN: 0415540003; </span><span class="a-size-large">9780415540001</span></p>
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<p><span class="a-size-large">This book is the first general social analysis that seriously considers the daily experience of information disruption and software failure within contemporary Western society. Through an investigation of informationalism, defined
as a contemporary form of capitalism, it describes the social processes producing informational disorder. While most social theory sees disorder as secondary, pathological or uninteresting, this book takes disordering processes as central to social life. The
book engages with theories of information society which privilege information order, offering a strong counterpoint centred on 'disinformation' and information disruption as natural features of that society. It elucidates the structural processes underpinning
and generating both information and its disruption.</span></p>
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<p><span class="a-size-large"><em>Disorder and the Disinformation Society</em> offers a practical agenda, arguing that difficulties in producing software are both inherent to the process of developing software and the normal social dynamics of informationalism.
It outlines the dynamics of software failure as they impinge on of information workers and on daily life, explores why computerized finance has become inherently self-disruptive, asks how digital enclosure and intellectual property create conflicts over cultural
creativity while disrupting informational accuracy and scholarship, and reveals how social media can extend, but also distort, the development of social movements.</span></p>
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<p>"<em>Disorder and the Disinformation Society</em> is a groundbreaking collective effort. The study shifts our attention from hyped possibilities to the dark side of our excessive information flows. After the digital rush, let's get analytic and study the
informational impulse. We can no longer deny the multitudes of failures. As Freud already taught us: it is through the study of disorder that we hold a mirror to society and learn about the laws of society. In order to prevent eternal repetition of the same
complaints, let's develop the necessary critical concepts. How will the data catharsis look like? This book is an excellent attempt at that practice."
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<p><em>- Geert Lovink, internet critic, Institute of Network Cultures and European Graduate School</em></p>
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<p>"Rather than considering disorder and disinformation an undesirable by-product of networking, the authors make a convincing case for the persistence of unintended and unplanned consequences of human action―especially as applied to information networks. Provocative,
creative, and meticulously researched, this remarkable study changes our understanding of our today’s information society in profound ways. Not to be missed!"</p>
<p><em>- Manfred B. Steger, Professor of Political Science, University of Hawai’i-Manoa, and author of Globalization: A Very Short Introduction</em></p>
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