Discover 'The Age of Sharing', a groundbreaking book that explores the transformative power of sharing in the digital age. With 224 pages of in-depth analysis, this essential read delves into how sharing shapes our interactions, economic behaviors, and social norms. Experience the evolution of sharing from a concept of empathy and community to a complex interplay of commercial interests and personal connections. This 2016 publication by John Wiley & Sons highlights prominent examples from literature, social media, and the sharing economy, making it a vital resource for students and scholars alike. Ideal for anyone interested in digital culture, linguistics, and the economics of sharing, this book critiques how the sharing metaphor influences our social practices, allowing for both participation in and resistance to capitalism. Don't miss out on understanding the nuances of modern sharing, as this book elucidates its duality in fostering community while interrogating its exploitative facets.

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Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780745662510
Year: 2016
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK)
Pages: 224


Description:
Sharing is central to how we live today: it is what we do online; it is a model of economic behaviour; and it is also a type of therapeutic talk. Sharing embodies positive values such as empathy, communication, fairness, openness and equality. The Age of Sharing shows how and when sharing became caring, and explains how its meanings have changed in the digital age.

But the word sharing also camouflages commercial or even exploitative relations. Websites say they share data with advertisers, although in reality they sell it, while parts of the sharing economy look a great deal like rental services. Ultimately, it is argued, practices described as sharing and critiques of those practices have common roots. Consequently, the metaphor of sharing now constructs significant swathes of our social practices and provides the grounds for critiquing them; it is a mode of participation in the capitalist order
as well as a way of resisting it.

Drawing on nineteenth-century literature, Alcoholics Anonymous, the American counterculture, reality TV, hackers, Airbnb, Facebook and more, The Age of Sharing offers a rich account of a complex contemporary keyword. It will appeal to students and scholars of the internet, digital culture and linguistics.