TY - BOOK AU - Mejias,Ulises Ali TI - Off the network: disrupting the digital world T2 - Electronic mediations SN - 9780816679003 (pb : alk. paper) AV - HM 742 M516o 2013 U1 - 302.3 PY - 2013/// CY - Minneapolis PB - University of Minnesota Press KW - Online social networks KW - Social networks KW - Redes sociales KW - Redes sociales en línea N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-188) and index; Introduction -- Thinking the network. The network as method for organizing the world -- The privatization of social life -- Computers as socializing tools -- Acting inside and outside the network -- Unthinking the network. Strategies for unmapping networks -- Proximity and conflict -- Collaboration and freedom -- Intensifying the network. The limits of liberation technologies -- The outside of networks as method for acting in the world N2 - This book presents an examination of how the hidden logic of the Internet, social media, and the digital network is changing users' understanding of the world - and why that should worry us. This book suggests how we might begin to rethink the logic of the network and question its ascendancy ER -