“Something other than real life:” digital life resistance in the civil sphere
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F24%3A00135057" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/24:00135057 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41290-022-00176-z" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41290-022-00176-z</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41290-022-00176-z" target="_blank" >10.1057/s41290-022-00176-z</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
“Something other than real life:” digital life resistance in the civil sphere
Original language description
The pervasive use of digital life technologies, such as social media and smartphones, have fostered a social debate on the drawbacks of such modes of interaction and how the infiltration into social spaces by such technologies might be countered. This study employs Alexander’s civil sphere theory to study public expressions of antipathy towards digital technology communicated via online forums such as blogs and online mass media publications. Providing an innovative interpretation of technology resistance, the study departs from the well-researched realm of actors’ motivations and goals to uncover the cultural meaning that pervades resistance activities. In resisting, actors employ codes of the cultural sacred to claim meaningful attributes and identities for themselves and to malign those who engage in digital life as inhabiting profane cultural codes. Pushing beyond motivations, the findings of this study connect motivations to cultural meaning and show how two central concerns—authenticity and self-determination—structure anti-digital life discourse. In describing the discursive reiteration and application of these concepts vis-à-vis digital life, I extend the application of Alexander’s civil sphere theory to ongoing debates on technology and interpersonal communication in the digital age and, thereby, initiate the development of a cultural sociology of digital life resistance.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
American Journal of Cultural Sociology
ISSN
2049-7113
e-ISSN
2049-7121
Volume of the periodical
12
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
23
Pages from-to
115-137
UT code for WoS article
000888685500002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85142658087