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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Lingel, Jessa. Auteur du texte
Titre(s) : Digital countercultures and the struggle for community [Texte imprimé] / Jessa Lingel
Publication : Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press,, 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (viii, 178 pages) : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Collection : The information society series
Lien à la collection : The information society series
Comprend : Introduction ; Frameworks for technology and communities of alterity ; The death and life of great online subcultures: an analysis of body modification ezine ; They came from the basement: tactics of secrecy in New Brunswick's underground punk community ; Fight for your platform to party: Brooklyn drag and the battle for a queerer Facebook ; Countercultural values for theory and in design
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-170) and index
Whether by accidental keystroke or deliberate tinkering, technology is often used
in ways that are unintended and unimagined by its designers and inventors. Jessa Lingel
offers an account of digital technology use that looks beyond Silicon Valley and college
dropouts-turned-entrepreneurs. Instead, Lingel tells stories from the margins of countercultural
communities that have made the Internet meet their needs, subverting established norms
of how digital technologies should be used. Lingel presents three case studies that
contrast the imagined uses of the web to its lived and often messy practicalities.
She examines a social media platform (developed long before Facebook) for body modification
enthusiasts, with early web experiments in blogging, community, wikis, online dating,
and podcasts; a network of communication technologies (both analog and digital) developed
by a local community of punk rockers to manage information about underground shows;
and the use of Facebook and Instagram for both promotional and community purposes
by Brooklyn drag queens. Drawing on years of fieldwork, Lingel explores issues of
alterity and community, inclusivity and exclusivity, secrecy and surveillance, and
anonymity and self-promotion. By examining online life in terms of countercultural
communities, Lingel argues that looking at outsider experiences helps us to imagine
new uses and possibilities for the tools and platforms we use in everyday life
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Titre de dos : Digital countercultures
Sujet(s) : Internet -- Société -- États-Unis
Subculture
Médias -- Informatique -- États-Unis
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780262036214. - ISBN 0262036215 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45243188k
Notice n° :
FRBNF45243188
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