Cultural Studies and Technology

Slack, Jennifer Daryl; Wise, J. Macgregor

doi:10.4135/9781446206904.n35

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“…national culture → eGovernment readiness). The same was pointed out by Slack & Wise (2002) who argued that there is a reflexive relationship between cultures and ICTs, i.e. the relationship between culture and ICTs is not simple causal.…”

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The Impact of National Culture on Worldwide eGovernment Readiness

Kovačić

2005

InSITE Conference

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Diffusion of information and communication technologies is a global phenomenon. In spite of rapid globalization there are considerable differences between nations in terms of the adoption and usage of new technologies. Several studies exploring causal factors including national cultures of information and communication technology adoption have been carried out. The focus of this paper is slightly different from other studies in this area. Rather than concentrating on the individual information technology an overall eGovernment readiness is the focus. This research conducted an analysis of the impact national culture has on eGovernment readiness and its components for 95 countries. eGovernment readiness assessment used in this study is based on the UN Global eGovernment Survey 2003, while the national cultural dimensions were identified using Hofstede’s model of cultural differences. The research model and hypotheses were formed and tested using correlation and regression analysis. The findings indicate that worldwide eGov-ernment readiness and its components are related to culture. The result has theoretical and practical implications.

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The Impact of National Culture on Worldwide eGovernment Readiness

Kovačić

2005

InSITE Conference

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“…While articulation theory as developed by Hall, and Laclau and Mouffe, does not really account for technology or materiality, other cultural theorists have argued that technology itself needs to be understood as an articulation, inherently imbricated in any notion of culture or discourse (Slack, 1996; Slack and Wise, 2002). Similarly, scholars from different fields have been advocating attention to materiality in discourse studies (Hardy and Thomas, 2015; Siles, 2012).…”

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‘Machines don’t have instincts’: Articulating the computational in journalism

Bucher

2016

New Media & Society

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This article examines the articulation of computational journalism, focusing on how the meaning of the computational is discursively constructed and mobilized as a specific constellation of intelligibility within news organizations. Relying on the concept of articulation developed in cultural studies, the article asks what, exactly, is meant by the computational in the context of journalism? Drawing on interviews with key managerial staff, editors and developers at Scandinavian news organizations, three broad claims about the linkage between the computational and journalism emerged. These articulations include the notion that machines don’t have instincts, that democracy can never be personalized and finally that the computational is something to think with, rather than simulate. The argument is made that what can and cannot be calculated is not merely a technical question, it is also a deeply social, cultural, political and economic one. Thus, the computational emerges as an important organising framework and discursive order for thinking and talking about journalism in the digital age.

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“…Slack and Wise say that this conflation has come about because it is easier to count tangibles (amount of material items owned by a household) rather than the “qualitative moral dimensions of progress,” which have traditionally included happiness, harmony, and spirituality (11)—attributes that might more traditionally be the focus of epideictic rhetoric. For instance, our culture places a very high premium on convenience variously defined, as this article will describe, but almost always having to do with the “wish to leave body, time, and place behind” (Brook and Boal ix; Slack and Wise, “Cultural Studies and Technology”Tierney). Lawrence Rubin describes this phenomenon in “Merchandising Madness”: the commodification of common experiences to create a market based on “discomforts” that can be “equally and efficiently remedied through mass‐produced products” (369).…”

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iPods, Viagra, and the Praiseworthy Life: Epideictic Rhetoric in Technology and Medical Print Advertising

Blakely

2011

The Journal of Popular Culture

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Cultural Studies and Technology

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The Impact of National Culture on Worldwide eGovernment Readiness

The Impact of National Culture on Worldwide eGovernment Readiness

‘Machines don’t have instincts’: Articulating the computational in journalism

iPods, Viagra, and the Praiseworthy Life: Epideictic Rhetoric in Technology and Medical Print Advertising

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