東華大學圖書館 |

Language: English

Help

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

Back

Switch To: Labeled | MARC Mode | ISBD

An ethnography of relevance in the d...

Bietila, David.

Linked to FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

An ethnography of relevance in the digital age.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	An ethnography of relevance in the digital age./
Author:	Bietila, David.
Description:	76 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 49-01, page: 0046.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International49-01.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=1480867
ISBN:	9781124201382

An ethnography of relevance in the digital age.
Bietila, David.

An ethnography of relevance in the digital age. - 76 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 49-01, page: 0046.

Thesis (M.A.)--The George Washington University, 2010.

This study examines the contestation between different modes of relevance creation in the current context of digital media. Relevance is understood as a selective direction of attention, and as a phenomenon generated through social processes. Relevance must be produced within a specific medium, and new media call into question established social processes, and offer opportunity for their renegotiation. Relevance is significant in that practices which direct attention determine the creation of publics, which are held by Michael Warner to be constituted though attention.

ISBN: 9781124201382Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

An ethnography of relevance in the digital age.
LDR:02547nam 2200313 4500 001 1402355
005 20111028110448.5
008 130515s2010 ||||||||||||||||| ||eng d
020 $a 9781124201382
035 $a (UMI)AAI1480867
035 $a AAI1480867
040 $a UMI $c UMI
100 1 $a Bietila, David. $3 1681535
245 1 3 $a An ethnography of relevance in the digital age.
300 $a 76 p.
500 $a Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 49-01, page: 0046.
500 $a Adviser: Alexander S. Dent.
502 $a Thesis (M.A.)--The George Washington University, 2010.
520 $a This study examines the contestation between different modes of relevance creation in the current context of digital media. Relevance is understood as a selective direction of attention, and as a phenomenon generated through social processes. Relevance must be produced within a specific medium, and new media call into question established social processes, and offer opportunity for their renegotiation. Relevance is significant in that practices which direct attention determine the creation of publics, which are held by Michael Warner to be constituted though attention.
520 $a Using ethnographic observation methods, I gathered data about web sites exemplary of two different modes of relevance creation, LibraryThing and MetaFilter. LibraryThing generates relevance through aggregation, in which many individual classifications are statistically merged. MetaFilter envisions itself as a community, a social body characterized by shared resources. Community members can create relevance by their individual selection of texts in accordance with the community's values. Each approach, despite appealing to the novelty of digital media, calls upon durable social categories in order to create value. LibraryThing's approach relies on models of the free market, in which individual selfish action produces overall societal benefit. MetaFilter defines community through exclusion of anonymous participation, and potential members must pass through obstacles and maintain a stable identity to participate. This approach envisions community as founded upon limits imposed to keep destructive human tendencies in check.
590 $a School code: 0075.
650 4 $a Anthropology, Cultural. $3 735016
650 4 $a Multimedia Communications. $3 1057801
650 4 $a Web Studies. $3 1026830
690 $a 0326
690 $a 0558
690 $a 0646
710 2 $a The George Washington University. $b American Studies. $3 1675622
773 0 $t Masters Abstracts International $g 49-01.
790 1 0 $a Dent, Alexander S., $e advisor
790 1 0 $a Murphy, Teresa A. $e committee member
790 $a 0075
791 $a M.A.
792 $a 2010
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=1480867