Isbn: 9781501784453 - digital initiation rites: joining anonymous in britain (expertise: cultures and technologies of knowledge) (7 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Digital Initiation Rites is an ethnography of Anonymous in Britain between 2014 and 2017, in the context of government austerity. Drawing on testimonies of dozens of participants, for whom digital technologies enabled and articulated a political transformation from being 'asleep' to being 'awake,' Vita Peacock narrates the process through which these technologies have become implicated in profound subjective changes. The book joins a wider return of the comparative method in anthropology by placing these accounts in direct conversation with studies of traditional initiation rites - ritual sequences of symbolic death and rebirth - that charge the initiand with knowledge about a society to produce a moral responsibility for it. Through this juxtaposition, Peacock conceptualizes the historically novel form of digital initiation rites, in which digital communication and information technologies play a substantive role in these sequences. Digital Initiation Rites presents another angle to contemporary debates around 'conspiracy theorizing' and shows how the consumption of digital media connects to the deep history of humankind.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Digital Initiation Rites | Joining Anonymous in Britain | Vita Peacock | Taschenbuch | Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2025 | Cornell University Press | EAN 9781501784453 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.…