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Metric Power

Hardcover • 2016 • 1. edition

Metric Power

By David Beer

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About the book

This book examines the powerful and intensifying role that metrics play in ordering and shaping our everyday lives. Focusing upon the interconnections between measurement, circulation and possibility, the author explores the interwoven relations between power and metrics. He draws upon a wide-range of interdisciplinary resources to place these metrics within their broader historical, political and social contexts. More specifically, he illuminates the various ways that metrics implicate our live...Show more

Communication studies

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ISBN

9781137556486

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Published year

2016

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Metric Power

Format

Hardcover

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