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Informational Pragmatism and the Digital Order: Mediation, Network Norms, and Algorithmic Ideologies

Informational Pragmatism and the Digital Order: Mediation, Network Norms, and Algorithmic Ideologies
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Author(s): Silvio Andrae (Independent Researcher, Germany)
Copyright: 2026
Pages: 34
Source title: Digital Ideologies in the Age of Algorithmic Culture
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Esra Gökçen Kaygisiz (University of Giresun, Turkey)
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3373-4531-4.ch002

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Abstract

Digital transformation is often understood as technical modernization, but it signifies a profound shift in world relations. This essay develops a philosophical model of analysis that understands digital transformation as a form of technological world-unveiling and describes technical mediation as the co-constitution of meaning, action, and normativity. Methodologically, it combines metaphysical theo-ry, technical mediation analysis, network sociology, and ideology critique. It reconstructs seven net-work norms-fundamental principles guiding algorithmic culture-as the non-subjective normativity of digital systems. It integrates Byung-Chul Han's diagnosis of a loss of negativity as a cultural deep structure. The interdisciplinary analysis yields an expanded understanding of digital ideologies and a normative-creative approach that views digital infrastructures as sites of political, epistemic, and ethical world-formation.

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