che analizza come alcune comunità appartenenti alla c.d. contro-cultura
abbiano adattato le tecnologie internet ai propri valori culturali di contesto:
Digital Countercultures and the Struggle for Community
di Jessa Lingel
Overview
Whether by
accidental keystroke or deliberate tinkering, technology is often used
in ways that are unintended and unimagined by its designers and
inventors. In this book, 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.
About the Author
Jessa Lingel is an Assistant Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania.
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Antonio Vetrò, Ph.D.
Director of Research
Nexa Center for Internet and Society