... marked another, heralding the current age of the technical image. The automation of the processing of technical images carries both promise and threat: the promise of freeing humans to play and invent and the threat for networks of automation to proceed independently of humans....

... compendium of answered and unanswered questions, of challenges and provoking thoughts, and of directions recommended to be found in this volume. Four concepts framed that discussion ánd shaped the framework of this volume: grievances and identities: the dynamics of demand; organisations and networks...

... social movement, coalitional, organizational, and subcultural/communitarian modes. Collective action Coordination Empirical phenomena McCarthy John D Minkoff Debra Network governance Networks Organizational studies Relations Social movements Social movement studies Activists Boundaries...

...The chapter discusses two webcams, a moss cam and a spill cam, to consider how images now operate as sensor-data, even more than as stand-alone “pictures.” Often located as one mode of input within sensor networks, images generated from webcams translated into data that can be parsed through image...

...Throughout this book I highlight the role of relational geographies in the constitution of our world. This argument has important implications for researchers, who can no longer assume that they are isolated from the boarder networks they study or the realities they help bring into being...

...This chapter examines the political economy of networks and the process of commodification that allows them to increase participation while also increasing inequality. Digital networks are not different from other for-profit media systems in the patterns of ownership conglomeration they exhibit...

...This chapter expounds on intensification by focusing on the importance of the outsides of networks, and offers a conclusion that provides additional thoughts about the unmapping of networked participation. Digital networks and the network episteme have already transformed who we are and how we...

...This chapter describes architecture as a fluid and expansive spatial network with a history; however, participatory networks acknowledge the existing forces of social, economic, and political fields, affecting people’s spatial situations. It cites Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s “relational architecture...

...This book 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. Contagion is not necessarily...

...Are we made of junk? This book believes we are. Examining an array of cybernetic structures from genetic codes to communication networks, it explores the idea that most of culture and nature, including humans, is composed primarily of useless, but always potentially recyclable, material otherwise...

...This chapter studies the scientific and technological paradigms behind digital networks, and how they have been applied in the assemblage of digital social networks. The technological part of digital networks is made up of computer code or algorithms. Human-computer interaction (HCI) enables easier...

...This chapter presents the theoretical grounds for unthinking the network by discussing an ontology that accounts for the virtuality of networks. Digital networks give shape to social forms that were only virtual possibilities before. However, in the process of actualizing them, they become...

...This chapter discusses the use of digital networks during the Arab Spring movements to point out how certain discourses prevent a critique of the tools and the market structures in which they operate. Stanford University’s Program on Liberation Technology researches “how information technology can...

...This chapter discusses the concept of export specialization, by which liberal visionaries imagined the possibility for global commodity networks to earn national wealth. It examines the account of Cuban writer José Martí who supported foreign investment by writing Guatemala...

...This chapter discusses Suzanne Lacy's formal entry into the art world of Los Angeles, and her subsequent experimentations on the themes of networks and exchanges within the scope of her art. Lacy explored spaces in various forms—the physical body, as well as the literal and metaphorical spaces...

...This chapter discusses Lacy's art projects performed among collaborative networks in the troubled communities of Oakland, California and Medellín, Colombia, with the express purpose of exploring alternatives to violence. Both areas have notoriously high crime rates—making them the ideal venues upon...

...This introductory chapter provides a background to the universality of epidemiological encounters in the “age of networks”. It considers an ontological investigation of contagious relationality that surveys outside the generality of metaphors and analogies, and focuses on three approaches...

... and financial parties—both at home and from abroad—for social welfare and development practices. These financial networks have eventually ended up promoting neoliberal ideals that limit social progress and autonomy within Bangladesh. Despite these issues, the author is optimistic that Bangladeshi’s citizens...

...This chapter examines the anticolonial networks established by Cyril Lionel Robert James, Amy Ashwood Garvey, and George Padmore in 1930s London in relation to the New Negro movement. The focus on anticolonial London aims to broaden the historical lens not only beyond Harlem, but also beyond...

...This chapter discusses how the Internet became the new queer space that expanded the capacity of queers to promote their advocacies and express themselves through protests. Through social networks, the very concept of queerness has expanded to include behaviors, identities, and love affairs...