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Title Details:
From Technophobia to Technoculture
Authors: Papailia, Pinelopi
Petridis, Petros
Reviewer: Boumparis, Nikos
Subject: LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ANTHROPOLOGY (NON PHYSICAL) > ETHNOGRAPHY AND ETHNOLOGY > ETHNOGRAPHIC THEORY
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ANTHROPOLOGY (NON PHYSICAL)
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ANTHROPOLOGY (NON PHYSICAL) > SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ANTHROPOLOGY (NON PHYSICAL) > ETHNOGRAPHY AND ETHNOLOGY
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ANTHROPOLOGY (NON PHYSICAL) > SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY > ANTHROPOLOGY AND MASS MEDIA
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ANTHROPOLOGY (NON PHYSICAL) > SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY > METHODOLOGY AND HISTORY IN ANTHROPOLOGY
Keywords:
Digital Culture
Internet And Society
Social Media
Public Disourse On The Internet
Cyberbullying
Addiction
Sexual Violence
Technoculture
Risk Society
Description:
Abstract:
In this chapter, we focus on public discourse about the internet that has constructed it as a cultural object and often as a pathology. We will focus in particular on the "dangers," such as addiction, sexual harassment and bullying, which in public opinion have come to be associated with the irrational use of the internet. Through ethnographic examples, we will show how discourse about technology does not, in fact, have to do with intrinsic characteristics of technology, but rather with social and political struggles over social visibility and participation in the public sphere, class identity and work, the borders between private and public, relations between generations, openness to the Other, access to knowledge and information, etc. In the final section, we consider several basic theories of technological mediation as a part of a critique of the technological determinism that underlies the technophobic/technophilic position. In this book, we insist on the use of compound words such as technosociality, technoculture, techopractices and technoscapes because we want to demonstrate in the most emphatic terms that technology can in no way be separated from social relations, cultural practices and historical experience, whether as an accessory/casing (device, software, application) or as a "representation" of the "real."
Table of Contents:
3.1. Prologue
3.2. The Child and the Internet: The Discourse of Risk
3.3. Addiction
3.4. Sexual Violence and Cyberbullying
3.5. Technosociality/ Technoculture
3.6. Bibliography
Linguistic Editors: Spanaka, Adamantia
Technical Editors: Petridis, Petros
Type: Chapter
Creation Date: 2015
Item Details:
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/gr
Spatial Coverage: Volos - Thessaloniki
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/6120
Bibliographic Reference: Papailia, P., & Petridis, P. (2015). From Technophobia to Technoculture [Chapter]. In Papailia, P., & Petridis, P. 2015. Digital Ethnography [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/6120
Language: Greek
Is Part of: Digital Ethnography
Version: Version 1.1
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions