Network Societies 2.0: The extension of computing into the social and human environment

Abstract

Ulrik Ekman discusses the (assumed) democratic potential of digital technology and social media, the haunting of Turing’s ghost, the third wave of computing as its extension into the social and human environment and externalization of psychological individuation in techniques. He talks about the role of algorithms as means of personalization and foreclosure, the affirmative and subversive energy of surveillance art, the transdisciplinary call of media literacy and the ‘interpellative’ aspect of participatory culture.