Digital Countercultures and the Struggle for Community (The Information Society Series)

Jessa Lingel

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Whether by accidental keystroke or deliberate tinkering, technology is often used in ways that are unintended and unimagined by its designers and inventors. In this book, Jessa Lingel offers an account of digital technology use that looks beyond Silicon Valley and college dropouts-turned-entrepreneurs. Instead, Lingel tells stories from the margins of countercultural communities that have made the Internet meet their needs, subverting established norms of how digital technologies should be used. Lingel presents three case studies that contrast the imagined uses of the web to its lived and often messy practicalities. She examines a social media platform (developed long before Facebook) for body modification enthusiasts, with early web experiments in blogging, community, wikis, online dating, and podcasts; a network of communication technologies (both analog and digital) developed by a local community of punk rockers to manage information about underground shows; and the use of Facebook and Instagram for both promotional and community purposes by Brooklyn drag queens. Drawing on years of fieldwork, Lingel explores issues of alterity and community, inclusivity and exclusivity, secrecy and surveillance, and anonymity and self-promotion.

By examining online life in terms of countercultural communities, Lingel argues that looking at outsider experiences helps us to imagine new uses and possibilities for the tools and platforms we use in everyday life.

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無論是意外的按鍵錯誤還是有意的調整,科技常常被使用在設計師和發明家未曾預料或想像的方式上。在這本書中,Jessa Lingel提供了一個關於數位科技使用的描述,超越了矽谷和大學輟學生創業家的範疇。相反地,Lingel講述了那些將互聯網運用於滿足自身需求的反文化社群的故事,顛覆了數位科技應該如何使用的既定規範。

Lingel提出了三個案例研究,將網絡的想像用途與實際和常常混亂的實踐進行對比。她探討了一個社交媒體平台(早於Facebook開發)為身體改造愛好者提供的,其中包括早期的網絡博客、社群、維基、網絡約會和播客實驗;一個由本地龐克搖滾樂迷開發的通訊技術網絡(包括模擬和數位技術),用於管理地下音樂會的信息;以及布魯克林變裝皇后們在Facebook和Instagram上的宣傳和社群用途。Lingel根據多年的田野調查,探討了異質性和社群、包容性和排他性、保密和監控、匿名和自我推廣等問題。

通過從反文化社群的角度研究網絡生活,Lingel認為關注外部人的經驗有助於我們想像出在日常生活中使用的工具和平台的新用途和可能性。