DIGITAL CULTURE AND SOCIOLOGY session 1 Susana Tosca

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Digital Culture and Sociology

• The Others Culture

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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
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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...)

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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
  dont get wired class, gender, etc. Also to how
  other groups get wired (i.e. Elizabeth and
  Gittes papers)

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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)

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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)

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Liberation from power point

• We discuss the texts just with the texts, maybe
  starting with an image...
• ?

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where do you want to go today?
nakamura
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ethnic minority groups and IT
tufte
www.romani.org
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Course evaluation

• PLACE OF COURSE IN DKM
• CONTENT
• STRUCTURAL
• TEACHER
• STUDENT
• VISITORS
• exam

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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. Its 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