Structures of Participation in Digital CultureJoe Karaganis Digital technologies are engines of cultural innovation, from the virtualization of group networks and social identities to the digital convergence of textural and audio-visual media. User-centered content production, from Wikipedia and YouTube to Open Source, has become the emblem of this transformation, but the changes run deeper and wider than these novel organizational forms. Digital culture is also about the transformation of what it means to be a creator within a vast and growing reservoir of media, data, computational power, and communicative possibilities. We have few tools and models for understanding the power of databases, network representations, filtering techniques, digital rights management, and other new architectures of agency and control. We have even fewer accounts of how these new capacities have transformed our shared cultures and our understanding of and capacities to act within them. This volume addresses these issues and supplies the demand for a comprehensive critical framework that places these developments in context. |
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... contemporary globalization has in fact slowly but surely eroded the old modernist compact of " the city . " The tech- nological sublime of the planner imaginary , so central to postindependence India , is giving way to a splintered ...
... contemporary global urban environment . In India they feed directly into the more technocratic refashioning of elite discourses on globalization . The emergence of zones of generic urbanism in India has , of course , occurred in a ...
... contemporary city . The inherent problems of positing a strict human - nonhuman distinction has been pointed out by Bruno Latour ( 1993 ) , who claims that old - style humanist discourses between subject and object , nature and culture ...