Zu »Sociology of Culture« wurden 39 Artikel gefunden!

The inaugural issue »Digital Material/ism« presents methodological and theoretical insights into digital materiality and materialism.

The second issue »Quantified Selves | Statistical Bodies« provides methodological and theoretical reflections on technologically generated knowledge about the body and socio-cultural practices that are subsumed, discussed, and criticized using the key concept »Quantified Self«.

The third issue »Politics of Big Data« critically examines the political and economic dimensions of Big Data and thus details its contestation. The contributions focus on the materialities and processes which manifest Big Data and explore forms of value beyond the state and capital.

The articles collected in this fourth issue investigate the multiple meanings of hacking and making, and shed light on the communities, spaces, and practices of hackers and makers.

As DIY digital maker culture proliferates globally, research on these practices is also maturing. Still, particular terminologies dominate beyond their Western contexts, and technocultural histories of making are often rendered as over-simplified technomyths that render invisible diverse local practices. This special issue brings together contributions that highlight how historicising plays a role in mythmaking and the creation of social imaginaries. The peer-reviewed articles present cultural-historical perspectives, technology and design histories and historiographies, and alternative histories related to postcolonial resistance. The contributions illustrate the relevance of craft to making as a reparative practice after the Salvadoran Civil War and as a leisure activity to spark »innovation« in mid-century corporate culture; the political-economic background to the diffusion and differentiation of community workshops in contemporary Spain and post-war Germany; and the various aesthetics and politics of technology culture manifestos over the years.
The issue features an interview with Peter Harper of the Alternative Technology movement by Simon Sadler, as well as an interview with Felix Holm and Suné Stassen on the antecedents of making and design in South Africa. The special issue is rounded off with six short alternative (hi)stories of DIY making including multiple practices, geographies and temporalities.

Are the Olympics killing skateboarding's heart and soul? This anthology provides a unique analytical perspective from twelve international authors.

This issue discusses how digital mobile practices can be described, framed and researched through the mobility of people, data and devices.

The special issue Rethinking AI will explore and reflect the hype of neuroinformatics in AI discourses and the potential and limits of critique in the age of computational intelligence.

Creativity abounds: There is a proliferation of creative practices, spaces and subjects. This book maps and investigates the contemporary creativity complex.

An exploration of ideological and political aspects of metadata practices within image collections from an interdisciplinary perspective