In chapters examining a broad range of issues—including sexuality, politics, education, race, gender relations, the environment and social protest movements—Digitized Lives argues that making sense of digitized culture means looking past the glossy surface of techno gear to ask deeper questions about how we can utilize technology to create a more socially, politically and economically just world. This second edition includes important updates on mobile and social media, examining how new platforms and devices have altered how we interact with digital technologies in an allegedly ‘post-truth' era. A companion website includes links to online articles and useful websites, as well as a bibliography of offline resources, and more.
Author(s): T. V. Reed
Edition: 2nd
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 332
Tags: Internet: Social Aspects, Information Technology: Social aspects, Social change
Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
List of Illustrations......Page 10
Preface: Why Buy this Book?......Page 12
Outline of Chapters......Page 16
Companion Website......Page 17
Acknowledgments......Page 20
1 How Do We Make Sense of Digitizing Cultures? Some Ways of Thinking Through the Culture–Technology Matrix......Page 22
Does Technology Make Us More than We Make Technology? Technological Determinism vs. Technocultural Analysis......Page 30
Components of Digital Culture Analysis......Page 34
Terminal Confusion?......Page 38
What’s in a Name? New Media/Cyber/Digital Culture/ Etc. Studies......Page 43
The Internet’s Weird History......Page 50
From Dream to Reality to Dream: Producing Digital Stuff......Page 57
Maker Culture Production: The Open Source Do-It-Yourself Digital World......Page 62
Clean Rooms or “Dark Satanic Mills”? Toxic Production E-Waste and Environmental Justice......Page 66
3 What’s New about Digitized Identities? Mobile Bodies, Online Disguise, Cyberbullying and Virtual Communities......Page 74
Is There a Virtual World/Real World Divide?......Page 76
Is Life Online a Mobile Masquerade?......Page 82
Anonymity, Disinhibition and Cyberbullying......Page 89
Are Virtual Communities for Real?......Page 92
How Much Online Life Is Good for Us?......Page 93
4 Has Digital Culture Killed Privacy? Social Media, Governments and Digitized Surveillance......Page 98
What Rights Are Being Lost if Privacy Is Lost?......Page 101
Social Media as Surveillance Mechanism......Page 102
Government Surveillance......Page 110
What Can We Do to Protect Our Data and Privacy?......Page 117
5 Is Everybody Equal Online? Digitizing Gender, Ethnicity, Dis/Ability and Sexual Orientation......Page 122
The Default Subject Position?......Page 123
Is the Internet a Guy? Engendering Cyberspaces......Page 127
Is the Internet Colorblind? E-Racializations......Page 138
Who Is Dis/Abled by Cyberspaces? Enabling and Disabling Technologies......Page 145
How Queer Are Cyberspaces? Alternative Sexualities in Cyberspaces......Page 151
Cultural Imperialism, Hegemony and/or Digital Diversity?......Page 153
Real Virtual Sex Education......Page 160
Digital Diddling: Varieties of Cybersex......Page 162
The “Mainstreaming” of Porn......Page 164
Digitized Sex Trafficking......Page 170
Electronic Electoral Politics: The Trump Campaign, Brexit and the Weaponization of Digital Data......Page 174
Fake News, Real Impact: Digitizing a Post-Truth Era......Page 179
Can Social Media Overthrow Governments?......Page 188
Electronic Civil Disobedience, Hacktivism and Digital Organizing......Page 190
Cyberterrorism......Page 203
Digitizing the Arts of Protest......Page 204
How to Avoid Fake News and Intentionally Inflammatory Politics......Page 208
8 Are Digital Games Making Us Violent, or Will They Save the World? Virtual Play, Real Impact......Page 212
What’s in a Game? Playing Theories......Page 213
What Do Games Teach?......Page 215
Do Video Games Make Players Violent?......Page 216
Digitized “Militainment”?......Page 219
Gender Games, Race Games......Page 223
Can Video Games Save the World?......Page 233
9 Are Students Getting Dumber as Their Phones Get Smarter? E-Learning, Edutainment and the Future of Knowledge Sharing......Page 236
“Is Our Children Learning” Digitally?......Page 237
What Is Technology Doing in the Classroom?......Page 239
Is Knowledge a Commodity or a Human Right? Higher Education vs. Information Feudalism......Page 246
End of the World (as We Knew It): Digital Humanities and Digitized Arts......Page 250
The Future of Knowledge Sharing: Education for Whom and for What?......Page 255
The World Wide Web Isn’t......Page 258
Who Needs the Internet?......Page 260
From Digital Divides to Technologies for Social Inclusion......Page 264
Should Everyone and Everything Be Online?......Page 270
Why Digitizing Matters to All of Us......Page 273
11 Conclusion: Will Robots and AIs Take Over the World? Hope, Hype and Possible Digitized Futures......Page 276
Robots, Cyborgs, Artificial Intelligence and the Singularity......Page 279
Bibliography......Page 286
Glossary......Page 310
Index......Page 328
