{"product_id":"9798765143391","title":"From Virtuality to Augmented Reality Between Sociality and Violence","description":"\u003ch1\u003eFrom Virtuality to Augmented Reality\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eBetween Sociality and Violence\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eYasmin Ibrahim\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eComputers \/ Internet \/ Social Media\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis open access book explores the thin precipice between sociality and violence, illuminating the false economy of the 'social' online and its intrinsic bind with violence as its default position and human subjugation. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book argues that the notion of 'social' online is intimately welded to violence and such that the notion of 'sociality' is constantly tested and transgressed online, invoking a form of socially-anchored violence which is both spectacularized and normalized, as well as bound with the everyday.  It seeks to deconstruct this naturalization of violence as a form of violence in itself and equally critiques the political economy of the social as an architecture which engenders violence as a default position invoking the technical and affective domains which pattern our responses (i.e. reciprocity, emojis, reactionary, instant gratification).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy interrogating the notion of 'social' on social media platforms (from our nascent notions of virtuality to the contemporary iterations of Metaverse), \u003ci\u003eFrom Virtuality to Augmented Reality\u003c\/i\u003e contends that the political economy of the 'social' premising on the notion of 'sociality' is intimately bound with the counter elements of the social; foregrounded particularly on the visceral, the reactionary and permutations of violence. The underpinning contention is that the 'social' has materialized through a particular political economy which conjoins the social imaginaries of emancipation with a technical infrastructure in which an affective realm is intimately bound with the workings of platform capital. In this way, the 'social' becomes divested from sociality and human communion and as a means to mobilise mob cultures, hate, misogyny and violence. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eQueen Mary University of London\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eYasmin Ibrahim\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Digital Economy and Culture and Head of the Department of Marketing in the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. She has written extensively on race and social media, digital capitalism and on technologies of trauma. Her recent books include \u003ci\u003eDigital Racial: Algorithmic Violence and Digital Platforms\u003c\/i\u003e (Rowman \u0026amp; Littlefield, 2023), \u003ci\u003eMigrants and Refugees at UK Borders: Hostility and 'Unmaking' the Human \u003c\/i\u003e(2022), \u003ci\u003eTechnologies of Trauma: Cultural Formations Over Time \u003c\/i\u003e(2022), and \u003ci\u003ePosthuman Capitalism: Dancing with Data in the Digital Economy\u003c\/i\u003e (2021).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e21 January 2027\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9798765143391\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e208\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53976385814668,"sku":"9798765143391","price":108.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9798765143391","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}