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Digital Culture and Sociology

Digital Culture and Sociology. The “Others” Culture. about today. Intro to put texts in context Nakamura , Lisa. 2000. “Where Do You Want to Go Today? Cybernetic Tourism, the Internet and Transnationality.”

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Digital Culture and Sociology

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  1. Digital Culture and Sociology The “Others” Culture DIGITAL CULTURE AND SOCIOLOGY session 1 – Susana Tosca

  2. about today • Intro to put texts in context • Nakamura, Lisa. 2000. “Where Do You Want to Go Today? Cybernetic Tourism, the Internet and Transnationality.” • Tufte, Thomas. 2002. “Ethnic Minority Danes between Diaspora and Locality – Social Uses of Mobile Phones and Internet”. • Answer to course feedback • SEMINAR: course evaluation texts wrap-up DIGITAL CULTURE AND SOCIOLOGY session 1 – Susana Tosca

  3. race in cyberculture Bell • Relation to identity theme, the cyborg theme, the body theme. • Problem: “race assumes (that) a homogeneous, unified set of characteristics and experiences can be mapped on to people with a shared heritage” (118) • race as cultural, a category that operates in practice • Kolko et.al.- Does race disappear in cyberspace? (race representation in cyberspace, MUDs, films, games...) DIGITAL CULTURE AND SOCIOLOGY session 1 – Susana Tosca

  4. race in cyberculture II Bell • Central issue: tension between the liberatory possibilities of disembodied “identity-play” and the symbolic violence that kind of appropriation does on the other (119) • Related to other “digital ghettos” or groups that don’t get wired: class, gender, etc. Also to how other groups get wired (i.e. Elizabeth and Gitte’s papers) DIGITAL CULTURE AND SOCIOLOGY session 1 – Susana Tosca

  5. class in cyberculture Bell • Largely focused on issues of information inequality, the re-ordering of socio-economic structures and social exclusion (Castells) • Also research in new class formations in the digital economy (Aurigi & Graham): • Information users (digital elite) • Information-used (consumers) • The “off-line” (marginalized, unemployed) DIGITAL CULTURE AND SOCIOLOGY session 1 – Susana Tosca

  6. class in cyberculture Bell • Kroker and Weinstein: Virtual class (capitalists and technotopians), techno-savvy + marketized and individualized work ethic. They talk about virtual capitalism. AS OPPOSED TO... • The Pay-Per consumer class, in a panotpicon (Gandy) DIGITAL CULTURE AND SOCIOLOGY session 1 – Susana Tosca

  7. Liberation from power point We discuss the texts just with the texts, maybe starting with an image...  DIGITAL CULTURE AND SOCIOLOGY session 1 – Susana Tosca

  8. where do you want to go today? nakamura DIGITAL CULTURE AND SOCIOLOGY session 1 – Susana Tosca

  9. ethnic minority groups and IT tufte www.romani.org DIGITAL CULTURE AND SOCIOLOGY session 1 – Susana Tosca

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  11. Course evaluation • PLACE OF COURSE IN DKM • CONTENT • STRUCTURAL • TEACHER • STUDENT • VISITORS • exam DIGITAL CULTURE AND SOCIOLOGY session 1 – Susana Tosca

  12. complementary bibliography • AURIGI & GRAHAM. 1998. “The crisis in the urban public realm”.In LOADER, (ed.). Cyberspace Divide: equality, agency and policy in the information society. London: Routledge. • GANDY. 1995. “It’s discrimination, stupid!” In BROOK, BOAL (eds.) Resisting the Virtual Life: the culture and politics of information. San Francisco: City Lights Books. • KROKER, A. & WEINSTEIN, M. 1994. Data Trash: the theory of the virtual class. Montreal: New World Perspectives. • KROKER. www.ctheory.net • NORRIS, Pippa. 2001. Digital Divide : Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press DIGITAL CULTURE AND SOCIOLOGY session 1 – Susana Tosca

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