The Digital Nexus

Raphael Foshay has been teaching in Athabasca University’s MA Program in Integrated Studies since 2008. His interests lie principally in literary, cultural, and interdisciplinary theory. He has written on Derrida, Hegel, Heidegger, and Levinas, as well as such literary figures as Joyce, Yeats, Kafka, and Wyndham Lewis and is the editor of Valences of Interdisciplinarity: Theory, Practice, Pedagogy. Contributors: Ian Angus, Maria Bakardjieva, Daryl Campbell, Sharone Daniel, Andrew Feenberg, Raphael Foshay, Carolyn Guertin, David J. Gunkel, Bob Hanke, Leslie Lindballe, Mark McCutcheon, Roman Onufrijchuk, Josipa G. Petrunic, Peter J. Smith, Lorna Stefanick, and Karen Wall

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Computational Turn and the Digital Network - Raphael Foshay

Part I: Digital Theory

1 The Internet in Question / Andrew Feenberg

2 Emergent Meaning in the Information Age / Ian Angus

3 Responsible Machines: The Opportunities and Challenges of Artificial Autonomous Agents / David J. Gunkel

4 Open Source Transparency: The Making of an Altered Identity / Daryl Campbell

Part II: Digital Culture

5 Hacktivist (Pre)Occupations: Self-Surveillance, Participation and Public Space / Carolyn Guertin

6 Theoretical and Institutional Contexts of the Dubject, the Doubled and Spaced Self / Mark A. McCutcheon

7 The Network University in Transition / Bob Hanke

8 Spinning the Web: Critical Discourse Analysis and its Online Space / Leslie Lindballe

9 Paramortals, or Dancing with the Interactive Digital Dead / Roman Onufrijchuk

Part III: Digital Politics

10 The Rise of the National Surveillance State in Comparative Perspective / Peter J. Smith

11 Democracy and Identity in the Digital Age / Lorna Stefanick and Karen Wall

12 The Digital Democratic Deficit: Analysis of Digital Voting in a Canadian Party Leadership Race / Josipa G. Petrunic

13 Navigating the Mediapolis: Digital Media and Emerging Practices of Democratic Participation / Maria Bakardjieva

14 The Construction of Collective Action Frames in Facebook Groups / Sharone Daniel

Afterword / Raphael Foshay

Appendix: Do Machines Have Rights? Ethics in the Age of Artificial Intelligence / David Gunkel, Interviewed by Paul Kellogg

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