Making Digital Cultures

There has been multi-disciplinary interest in the 'digital age', 'information age', and 'technoculture' in recent years, with information and communication technologies, particularly the internet, being commonly associated with a variety of dramatic social and cultural changes. This is often most acute in discussions about the 'impact' of digital technologies upon traditional institutional identities and practices, and its consequences for citizenship and selfhood more generally. What is less observed are the precise ways in which digital technologies are becoming interwoven within different institutional cultures.This book is about the dynamics of emerging 'digital cultures'. It examines the 'enfolding' of digital technologies and techniques into different institutional and organizational cultures, considering how and with what implications digital technologies are becoming part of the institutional and organizational 'fabric' within different locations. Bringing together recent theorizing of the 'digital age' with empirical studies of how different institutions are adopting these technologies in practice, "Making Digital Cultures" argues for a more reflexive understanding of the multiple forms of institutionally anchored appropriation emerging within digital cultures.With its direct engagement with both new media theory and science and technology studies, alongside an overview of the central debates relating to digital culture, this volume will be of interest to scholars and students in the areas of media and communication and science and technology studies.