Theorizing Digital Cultures

Bollmer, Grant

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“…Barad (2007: 176) claims that individuals’ identities and related performances are shaped by the materiality of technology and how it mediates individuals’ interactions. Consumers’ modes of interacting and presenting themselves to each other are then framed by the technical and material support used to relate and communicate (Bollmer, 2018: 122).…”

Section: Consumers’ Performativity In Affective and Technological Intensification Dynamicsmentioning

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Eudaimonia: The sociocultural value of consumers’ social labor

2020

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Consumers participate in social media producing value through social labor. So far scholars approached social labor through a Marxist lens focusing on the economic aspects of its value and the potential risks related to consumers’ exploitation. We build a sociocultural conceptualization of social labor actualizing the Aristotelian idea of virtuous action that realizes a life well lived with others. Following this approach, we identify Eudaimonia as a theoretical construct to capture the sociocultural value of social labor, and we elaborate how social labor in social media enables the achievement of a eudaimonic state of living. We support our conceptualization with empirical evidence in the social media context of amateur cooking practices that illustrates how Eudaimonia is achieved through social labor practices of cultural performativity. Our perspective extends previous theory related to three research domains of consumers’ social labor: (1) Marxist and technocapitalist critique, (2) neoliberalist perspective, and (3) networked consumer collectives.

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Section: Consumers’ Performativity In Affective and Technological Intensification Dynamicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Eudaimonia: The sociocultural value of consumers’ social labor

2020

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“…It is almost a truism to say that scientific research has quickly followed what looks like another paradigmatic shift (a 'digital turn') and has given rise to new fields of knowledge and to renewed perspectives about Social Sciences and Humanities (hereafter SSH) in the context of networked, connected and highly digitalized societies (Castells, 1996). The societal impact of the massive expansion of ICT has long been a topic of inquiry in the SSH, and especially sociology for rising interest in new social relationships and communication by means of mediated apparatus (the subject-matter of computational sociology) and the rise of cybercultures or digitalized cultures (Bollmer, 2018).…”

Section: Mots-clés Digitalization Internet Magie Religion Transfomentioning

confidence: 99%

Moral and financial economics of ‘digital magic’: Explorations of an opening field

Obadia

2020

Social Compass

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The relationship between religion and the Internet has been attracting more attention by researchers in recent years. Magic, however, is still relatively overlooked in this area, and has not given rise to influential studies in the field. Based on investigations on the Internet, other new information and communication technologies, and a survey of the scientific literature, this article intends to lay the groundwork for a consideration of magic and new information technology, and to highlight the specificity of a perspective in terms of digital magic, distinct from that of one exclusively focused on digital religion.

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“…Digital and social media also allow users to perform identity (Bollmer, 2018), even identities that are based on fantasy. In the realm of social media, one can perform as an avatar with designed and exaggerated characteristics.…”

Section: The Literature and Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

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Public police’s philanthropy and Twitter communications in Canada

Walby

Gumieny

2020

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PurposePolice services, police associations and police foundations now engage in philanthropy and these efforts are communicated using social media. This paper examines social media framing of the philanthropic and charitable work of police in Canada.Design/methodology/approachDrawing from discourse and semiotic analyses, the authors examined the ways that police communications frame contributions to charity and community’s well-being. Tweets were analyzed for themes, hashtags and images that conveyed the philanthropic work of police services, police associations as well as police foundations.FindingsThe authors discovered four main forms of framing in these social media communications, focusing on community, diversity, youth and crime prevention. The authors argue that police used these communications as mechanisms to flaunt social capital and to boost perceptions of legitimacy and benevolence.Research limitations/implicationsMore analyses are needed to examine such representations over time and in multiple jurisdictions.Practical implicationsExamining police communications about philanthropy not only reveals insights about the politics of giving but also the political use of social media by police.Originality/valueSocial media is used by organizations to position themselves in social networks. The increased use of social media by police, for promoting philanthropic work, is political in the sense that it aims to bolster a sense of legitimacy.

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Theorizing Digital Cultures

Cited by 34 publications

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Eudaimonia: The sociocultural value of consumers’ social labor

Eudaimonia: The sociocultural value of consumers’ social labor

Moral and financial economics of ‘digital magic’: Explorations of an opening field

Public police’s philanthropy and Twitter communications in Canada

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