Post-Global Network and Everyday Life

«This thoughtful edited collection reflects on network theories, the media, work and health in the context of emerging technologies. In the past decade, Y2K, 9/11, and the proliferation of ubiquitous computing have been significant events and moments redefining our everyday. This wide-ranging collection takes into careful consideration the discourses of privacy, democracy, fear and promises and offers us ways to ponder, reflect and move forward in a ‘post-global network’.» (Barbara Crow, Associate Dean of Research, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, York University)
«‘Post-Global Network and Everyday Life’ does an excellent job in advancing the conversation on the role and place of networks in daily life. Arguing for the significance of mundane uses of new media, the authors in this collection examine how agency, identity, and subjectivity are altered once ‘the network’ becomes a primary locus for everyday life. Drawing upon a range of foundational theorists, including Manuel Castells, Gilles Deleuze, and Michel Foucault, as well as more recent, influential voices such as Tiziana Terranova, Alexander Galloway, and Eugene Thacker, the contributors to this volume map out a critical terrain for exploring local and global expressions of social agency as both an individual and a collective activity.» (Mark Nunes, Author of ‘Cyberspaces of Everyday Life’)
«This thoughtful edited collection reflects on network theories, the media, work and health in the context of emerging technologies. In the past decade, Y2K, 9/11, and the proliferation of ubiquitous computing have been significant events and moments redefining our everyday. This wide-ranging collection takes into careful consideration the discourses of privacy, democracy, fear and promises and offers us ways to ponder, reflect and move forward in a ‘post-global network’.» (Barbara Crow, Associate Dean of Research, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, York University)
«‘Post-Global Network and Everyday Life’ does an excellent job in advancing the conversation on the role and place of networks in daily life. Arguing for the significance of mundane uses of new media, the authors in this collection examine how agency, identity, and subjectivity are altered once ‘the network’ becomes a primary locus for everyday life. Drawing upon a range of foundational theorists, including Manuel Castells, Gilles Deleuze, and Michel Foucault, as well as more recent, influential voices such as Tiziana Terranova, Alexander Galloway, and Eugene Thacker, the contributors to this volume map out a critical terrain for exploring local and global expressions of social agency as both an individual and a collective activity.» (Mark Nunes, Author of ‘Cyberspaces of Everyday Life’)