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ISBN 10: 1787699161
ISBN 13: 978-1787699168
Author: David Beer
The culture we consume is increasingly delivered to us via various digital on-demand platforms. The last decade has seen platforms like Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Spotify, Google and the like become massive players in shaping cultural consumption. But how can we understand culture once it moves on to big tech platforms? How can we make sense of the changes this brings to our lives? These platforms have the power to shape our cultural landscape and to use data, algorithms and other technological means to shape our experiences, from what we remember through to what we know and even the speed and accessibility of culture.
This book asks how can we understand the chaos and messiness of on-demand culture? Beer suggests that we focus on the quirks and use these as openings to see inside patterns and dynamics of these new cultural formations. By exploring the strange quirks that typify our new on-demand culture, this book seeks to answer these questions. The Quirks of Digital Culture is a guide to understanding the complex and unsettling cultural present, whilst also casting an eye on how our consumption and cultural experiences may unfold in what seems like an unpredictable future.
The Quirks of Digital Culture 1st Table of contents:
1: Digital Culture and Its Quirks
A Bit More Context: Crew-Neck Capitalism
2: The Order of Things
Ripping Up the Yellow Pages
The End of the NME and the Changing Sources of Cultural Information
Whatever Happened to the Mysterious Epicentre of the British Music Scene?
The Chaos of Music Genres
Why Is Everyone Talking About Algorithms?
Algorithms as Heroes and Villains
Cultural Acceleration 1: The Closure of Vine
Cultural Acceleration 2: Debut Number 1s and the Accelerating Pop Chart
Conclusion
3: Total Recall: The Past, Presentand Future
Becoming Media Savvy: TV Game Shows and Social Change
Those Matter Out of Place Moments
Platform Nostalgia
Are Cassette Tapes Really Making a Comeback Too?
The Rise of the Comeback
Social Media and Memories
Conclusion
4: The Comforts and Discomforts of Connection
The Comfort of a Smartphone
Bodies in Bubbles
The Comforts and Discomforts of Smartness
Social Media’s Collective Backfiring
The Discomforting Power of Our Social Media Data
The Ideals and Tensions of Our Social Media Spaces
The Comforts and Discomforts of Being Watched and Listened to …
The TV Calls Your Name
The Sound of Surveillance
Conclusion
5: The Demands of On-Demand Culture
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