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Da: Derek Hrynyshyn <derekh@yorku.ca> Data: 13 maggio 2017 17:55:23 CEST A: CCA-LIST@LISTS.MCGILL.CA, icts@lists.riseup.net Oggetto: [icts] Book Launch Announcement - Limits of the Digital Revolution Rispondi a: Derek Hrynyshyn <derekh@yorku.ca>

I am pleased to announce the publication of my book:

The Limits of the Digital Revolution: How Mass Media Culture Endures in a Social Media World (Praeger, 2017)

and to invite anyone in Toronto for the Congress to a launch event:

Kerr Hall South 369 (40 / 50 Gould St) Ryerson University 10:30, June 1, 2017

I hope to be able to see you there! More details, as they become available, will be here. derek

About the Book:

Limits of the Digital Revolution challenges the dominant mythology of social media as the source of a radically democratic ‘participatory culture’. By examining the structural differences between social media and traditional mass media systems of representation, it argues that popular culture is more likely to continue to be dominated by a capitalist culture industry, which will be driven by the need to promote consumer behaviour and identity. While social media systems do have important implications for the way that people communicate, the book concludes by demonstrating that without a different social media system, which allows citizens to develop their capacities to express and represent themselves in ways free from the manipulation by capital, social media will not solve the problems in our popular culture.

"Derek Hrynyshyn has written a book explaining social media that reveals a wisdom beyond the author's years. This is a thoughtful, original, provocative, thorough and entirely up-to-date examination of the great media revolution in the world today and what it means going forward. It will be required reading for anyone serious about the subject. I give it an unconditional recommendation."

Robert W. McChesney co-author, People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy

"The promise of sharing and connectivity in our age of screens comes under deep and insightful scrutiny in Derek Hrynyshyn’s powerfully argued book. Technological progress in no way guarantees the progress of humanity and Hrynyshyn shows us that the advances of social media have even coincided with distinctly uncivil movements. This is a critical, bracing, but also hopeful analysis of the new media systems that have become foundational myths in our lives."

Michael Harris author of Solitude and The End of Absence

-- Dept of Communication Studies School of Public Policy and Administration TEL 3024   York University   Toronto Canada

Author of Limits to the Digital Revolution: How Mass Media Culture Endures in a Social Media World (Praeger, 2017)