Ithaca College

Author of "Off the Newtork: Disrupting the Digital" will present in Park Auditorium Monday April 1st from 3-4:30pm.

Off the Network is a fresh and authoritative 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. Ulises Ali Mejias also suggests how we might begin to rethink the logic of the network and question its ascendancy. Touted as consensual, inclusive, and pleasurable, the digital network is also, Mejias says, monopolizing and threatening in its capacity to determine, commodify, and commercialize so many aspects of our lives. He shows how the network broadens participation yet also exacerbates disparity—and how it excludes more of society than it includes.

http://www.amazon.com/Off-Network-Disrupting-Electronic-Mediations/dp/0816679002