How digital social life matters : new frames for social and cultural analysis

"Focusing on two concepts that were central to modernism and continue to be important, albeit in different ways, this book explores the nature of the simple and the complex, and the relationship that exists between them. With attention to trends in big data and digital media, society, politics,...

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Main Author Toews, David (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.
SeriesMedia, culture and critique: future imperfect
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781003193647
1003193641
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Physical Description1 online resource.

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