Bøger af Robert Hassan

Through a synthesis of philosophical anthropology and media theory, this book examines the human relationship with technology, progressing from analogue to digital, to give a new perspective on journalism in the digital age.Journalism from Print to Platform takes a fresh look at the relationship between journalism as a craft shaped by its tools and considers anew the tools themselves. This book demonstrates that, with the emergence of digitality, what analogue print culture made possible and seemingly 'natural' has now become unworkable. Digital logic constitutes a wholly different category of technology with a framework that makes fidelity in one-to-one exchange of analogue-to-digital in communication problematic. In short, the technologically-based forms and practices that journalism developed as a fourth estate/public sphere enabler are, like us, irreducibly analogue. Whilst we have mostly assumed that these would either adapt or carry over with the shift to digitality, this book challenges that assumption and considers the important consequences of that realisation for the practice of journalism today.This challenging study is an insightful resource for students and scholars in journalism, media and technology studies.

Author Robert Hassan believes we are trapped in a digital prison of constant distraction. In Uncontained, he books a passage on a container ship and spends five weeks travelling from Melbourne to Singapore without digital distractions -- disconnected, and essentially alone.In this space of isolation and reflection, he is able to reconnect with lost memories and interrogate the lived experience of time.Uncontained is a personal exploration of this journey and a must-read for anyone who feels the encroachment of the digital upon their inner world.The first academic monograph from Grattan Street Press.

"An introduction and history to the analog as a technology and as a way of understanding the world as distinct from the digital"--

What are we to make of the information society? Many prominent theorists have argued it to be the most profound and comprehensive transformation of economy, culture and politics since the rise of the industrial way of life in the 18th century.