The Participant: A Century of Participation in Four Stories

by Christopher M. Kelty

Book Overview

Participation is everywhere today. It has been formalized, measured, standardized, scaled up, network-enabled, and sent around the world. Platforms, algorithms, and software offer to make participation easier, but new technologies have had the opposite effect. We find ourselves suspicious of how participation extracts our data or monetizes our emotions, and the more procedural participation becomes, the more it seems to recede from our grasp.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022666676X
• ISBN13: 9780226666761
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"