Between Life-World and Technical Systems: Dialectics in the Digital Locus

Josgrilberg, Fabio Botelho

doi:10.22230/cjc.2011v36n2a2254

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“…For Fabio Josgrilberg (2011), "technological, political, and economic choices … exist in continuous tension with the everyday life practices, which, in turn, serve to consistently reinvent the technologies that are deployed by IT and telecom industries and by governments at all levels" (pp. 295-296).…”

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Classifying the Internet: Everyday Negotiations of Technology and Social Order

Dumitrica

2013

Canadian Journal of Communication

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Classifying the Internet: Everyday Negotiations of Technology and Social Order

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2013

Canadian Journal of Communication

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The internet as a sacred and irrational space within the Ellulian milieu of ‘technique’

Turner

2022

Explorations in Media Ecology

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This article attempts to critically assess the concept of a ‘fourth milieu’ of ‘virtuality’ as possibly unique and distinct from Jacques Ellul’s technical milieu (the third of Ellul’s theoretical ‘three milieus’). The proposed fourth milieu challenges the very definition and boundary between ‘the real’ and the virtual, the rational and the irrational, the sacred and the profane, the human subject and the virtual subject. I argue that Ellul’s dialectical studies on the nature of ‘the word’ and ‘the image’ suggest that the internet is the space of the ‘irrational’ within the general ‘rational’ milieu that constitutes the technological organization of our society. Contrary to a ‘virtual’ milieu, I argue that the internet is the dialectical pole of ‘irrationality’, a parallel domain that exists in tension with the ‘rational’ pole of industrial society. Ellul’s concepts of the ‘sacred’ and ‘sacred of transgression’ contribute to the dialectical dynamics that are discussed in this article.

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The kind of problem a smart city is

Hestdalen

2022

Explorations in Media Ecology

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Digital technologies not only alter the material fabric of cities, but condition and constrain the complex networks of trust that emerge among neighbours and strangers as they engage one another in shared civic spaces. In this sense, a media ecology of the city would borrow from studies of urban sociology, political economy and cybernetics to reconsider what ethical implications smart technologies would have when sown into the fabric of an urban environment. This article introduces Jane Jacobs’s urban theory as a complexity approach to media ecology that provides insight into how urban environments, as media of communication and commerce, cultivate the ethical character of social relations among neighbours and strangers. It is argued that Jacobs’s urban theory provides sufficient ground for figuring the ethical implications of highly integrated and ubiquitous digital technologies within the organized complexity of urban environments and offers an alternative way of cultivating urban ecologies of communication.

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Between Life-World and Technical Systems: Dialectics in the Digital Locus

Cited by 3 publications

References 8 publications

Classifying the Internet: Everyday Negotiations of Technology and Social Order

Classifying the Internet: Everyday Negotiations of Technology and Social Order

The internet as a sacred and irrational space within the Ellulian milieu of ‘technique’

The kind of problem a smart city is

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