Technocultures and Glocalization

Abstract

The quick and massive developments of digital technologies and tools for communication and connectivity has brought about significant transformations both in the shape and dynamics of cultures. While modernization has generated genuine expressions of culture -some of them are modern or hypermodern while some others are so-called "traditional" or reinvented expressions. Among these new cultural forms, technoculture is maybe the most relevant yet also the most elusive concept: designed when the contemporary intermingles between cultures and technologies. The term is, however, all but a simple one, and this introduction is the occasion to recollect some of the key issues regarding the ambivalent and complex relationships between globalisation, technologies and culture(s) expressed though the term "technoculture".