Organising during the coronavirus crisis : the contradictions of our digital lives / Mike Healy.
Healy, Mike.
2022
HM851
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Title Organising during the coronavirus crisis : the contradictions of our digital lives / Mike Healy.
Author Healy, Mike.
ISBN 9789811919428 (electronic bk.)
9811919429 (electronic bk.)
9789811919411 (print)
9811919410
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1942-8
Published Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (261 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-981-19-1942-8 doi
Call Number HM851
Dewey Decimal Classification 302.23/1
Summary This book investigates the use of digital technologies for social organisation during the Covid-19 pandemic, interrogating the specific relationship between digital technologies and social movements. Drawing upon Marxs theory of alienation and Antonio Gramscis concepts concerning common-sense, good sense, hegemony and praxis, the author examines the effectiveness of digital technologies in filling the social void created by the pandemic. A series of in-depth interviews across a spectrum of areas from community activism, mental health, trade union organisation, the creative arts, and resistance movements reveal how digital technologies flourished during the pandemic crisis, facilitating new ways to communicate. However, the interviews also throw into sharp relief the inadequacies of digital technologies. The book challenges conventional wisdom concerning the beneficial impact of digital machines on our lives. This book will have a broad appeal to anyone researching or teaching the societal, ethical and political implications of digital technologies, particularly from a qualitative perspective. It also has relevance for a wider readership concerned about the influence of social media. Dr Mike Healy, formerly a senior lecturer at the Westminster Business School, University of Westminster, is an independent researcher with 20 years of experience researching and teaching the ethical and societal implications of digital technologies. He has published widely on ethics and ICT, diversity and employment in the ICT sector, ICT and teaching, the development and problems of e-government in Europe and Africa, and the relationship between alienation and dignity in the IT sector. His previous book, Marx and Digital Machines explored the relation between alienation and digital technologies.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 18, 2022).
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Chapter 1: COVID-19, Digital Technologies a challenging time
Chapter 2: COVID-19, digital technologies, and labour organisation
Chapter 3: Digital technologies, Covid and mutual aid
Chapter 4: COVID-19, digital technologies and coping with mental health
Chapter 5: COVID-19, digital technologies, and the creative arts
Chapter 6: Covid-19, digital technologies, and protest movements
Chapter 7: Conclusion.

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