Virality : Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks

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In this thought-provoking work, Tony D. Sampson presents a contagion theory fit for the age of networks. Unlike memes and microbial contagions, Virality does not restrict itself to biological analogies and medical metaphors. It instead points toward a theory of contagious assemblages, events, and af...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sampson, Tony D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Tarde, Gabriel de, > 1843-1904
Tarde, Gabriel de, > 1843-1904.
Social interaktion.
Massenpsychologie
Gruppendynamik
Nachahmung
Interaktion
Virtuelle Realität
Netzwerk
Internet
Social interaction.
Imitation.
Crowds.
PHILOSOPHY > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.
Foules.
Interaction sociale.
Imitation (Psychologie)
Imitative Behavior
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:In this thought-provoking work, Tony D. Sampson presents a contagion theory fit for the age of networks. Unlike memes and microbial contagions, Virality does not restrict itself to biological analogies and medical metaphors. It instead points toward a theory of contagious assemblages, events, and affects. For Sampson, contagion is not necessarily a positive or negative force of encounter; it is how society comes together and relates. Sampson argues that a biological knowledge of contagion has been universally distributed by way of the rhetoric of fear in the antivirus industry and other popula.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (248 pages).
ISBN:9780816682928

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