Description
Hybrid Media Culture
Sensing Place in a World of Flows
Routledge Advances in Sociology Series
Coordinator: Lindgren Simon
Language: English
Keywords
Hybrid Media Culture; Sensing Place in a World of Flows; Simon Lindgren; case studies; digital culture; online; offline; Anna Johansson; identity; body; space; place; self-harm; embodied practice; digital media; virtual worlds; seeing; surveillance; panoptic gaze; Facebook; Arab Spring; (dis)abilities; Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist; autism; YouTube; self-broadcasting; expressive culture; Sámi; community; Coppélie Cocq; activism; Michael Dahlberg Grundberg; networked communication technology; property rights; authorship; hacking; fan fiction; free software; remix; digital piracy; intellectual rights; social support; Ragnar Lundström; Stefan Gelfgren; churches; virtual church; Second Life; social media; Young Man; Smart Phones; Severely Endangered; Demarcation Line; Dystopian Rhetoric; Contemporary Society; Vice Versa; Jesper Falkheimer; Van De Donk; Pirate Bay; Computer Mediated Communication; Church; Church Building; Virtual Sacred; Actual Church Building; Online Piracy; Dagens Nyheter; Forum Participation; Abusive Partner; Digital Politics; Offline Practices; Online Support Networks; Social Cohesiveness
Publication date: 10-2013
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 12-2019
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
Description
/li>Contents
/li>Readership
/li>Biography
/li>
The distinction between online and offline realities is becoming more and more difficult to sustain. As computer-mediated communication evolves and as interaction becomes more and more dependent on the Internet, social, cultural, and political aspects begin to get caught and entangled in the web of contemporary digital communication technologies. Digital tools and platforms for communication are progressively becoming commonplace, while the cultural conceptions that surround these technologies?immediacy, constant accessibility, availability?are becoming increasingly mainstream.
Hybrid Media Culture is an interdisciplinary exploration of how the online and the offline interact in present-day culture. In the aftermath of all-encompassing perspectives on ?postmodernisation? and ?globalization?, there is now a pressing need for scholars of new media and society to come to terms with issues of place, embodiment, and materiality in a world of ?virtual? flows and ?cyber? culture. This book explores ways of conceptualizing the intricate intermingling of the online and the offline through case studies of hybrid media places, including: user-generated videos about self-harm; visibility, surveillance and digital media; digital communication tools and politics; and physical and virtual churches.
This interdisciplinary edited collection investigates the effects of the internet and digital culture on perceptions and uses of identities, bodies and localities. It will be of interest to students and scholars of digital culture, sociology, media and communications studies, new media, body studies, politics, and science and technology studies.
1. Hybrid Media Culture: An Introduction 2. Hybrid Embodiment: Doing Respectable Bodies on YouTube 3. Visibility and Surveillance in a Hybrid Media Culture 4. The Hybrid Emergence of Sámi Expressive Culture 5. Hybrid Political Activism and the Online/Offline Divide 6. The Hybrid Discourse of Digital Piracy 7. Social Support Online: Between Closeness and Anonymity 8. Hybrid Churches: Transcending the Physical, Virtual and Sacred 9. Towards a Heterotopology: Unlayering the Reality of Hybrid Media Culture
Simon Lindgren is Professor of Sociology at Umeå University, Sweden. He researches digital culture with a focus on social connections, social organization and social movements. His publications cover themes like hacktivism, digital piracy, subcultural creativity and learning, popular culture and visual politics. Simon is the author of New Noise: A Cultural Sociology of Digital Disruption (2013).
