Digital Countercultures and the Struggle for Community

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Jessa Lingel (Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania) Laura DeNardis (Professor, American University)

Digital Countercultures and the Struggle for Community

Jessa Lingel (Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania), Laura DeNardis (Professor, American University), Michael Zimmer (Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

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MIT Press
14 April 2017

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Series: Digital Countercultures and the Struggle for Community

How countercultural communities have made the Internet meet their needs, subverting established norms of digital technology use.

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.

By: Jessa Lingel (Assistant Professor University of Pennsylvania)
Series edited by: Laura DeNardis (Professor American University), Michael Zimmer (Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 431g
ISBN: 9780262036214
ISBN 10: 0262036215
Series: Digital Countercultures and the Struggle for Community
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 14 April 2017
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jessa Lingel is an Assistant Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania.