Colombia Una Nacion De Si Misma

ABSTRACT

This reviewsurveys and divides the ethnographic corpus on digital media into three broad but overlapping categories: the cultural politics of digital media, the vernacular cultures of digital media, and theprosaics of digital media. Engaging these three categories of scholarship on digital media, I consider how ethnographers are exploring the complex relationships between the local practices and globalimplications of digital media, their materiality and politics, and their banal, as well as profound, presence in cultural life and modes of communication. I consider the way these media have become centralto the articulation of cherished beliefs, ritual practices, and modes of being in the world; the fact that digital media culturally matters is undeniable but showing how, where, and why it matters isnecessary to push against peculiarly narrow presumptions about the universality of digital experience.

No mode of production and therefore no dominant social order and therefore no dominant culture inreality includes or exhausts all of human practice, human energy or human intention.

Raymond WilliamsABSTRACT

This reviewsurveys and divides the ethnographic corpus on digital media into three broad but overlapping categories: the cultural politics of digital media, the vernacular cultures of digital media, and theprosaics of digital media. Engaging these three categories of scholarship on digital media, I consider how ethnographers are exploring the complex relationships between the local practices and globalimplications of digital media, their materiality and politics, and their banal, as well as profound, presence in cultural life and modes of communication. I consider the way these media have become centralto the articulation of cherished beliefs, ritual practices, and modes of being in the world; the fact that digital media culturally matters is undeniable but showing how, where, and why it matters isnecessary to push against peculiarly narrow presumptions about the universality of digital experience.

No mode of production and therefore no dominant social order and therefore no dominant culture inreality includes or exhausts all of human practice, human energy or human intention.

Raymond Williams

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