[ecrea] IJoC Publishes Special Section on Global Digital Culture

International Journal of Communication 
Publishes a Special Section on
Global Digital Culture

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Is There a Global Digital Culture?
 Contributors debate this question in this Special Issue co-published with
CARGC Press. Authors initially presented this research at the second
Biennial Symposium of the Center for Advanced Research in Global
Communication (CARGC) at the Annenberg School for Communication at the
University of Pennsylvania in April 2016.  In the 1980s and 1990s, the 
question “Is there a global culture?” fueled
heated debates as intellectual opponents grappled with the social,
political, economic and cultural consequences of globalization. Guest-edited
by Marwan M. Kraidy, this Special Section by global communication scholars
revisits the discussion on global culture in light of the digital
revolution. The articles that follow do not pretend to provide a
comprehensive answer to the existence or lack thereof of a global digital
culture. Rather, they consider this question as an intellectual provocation
to revisit how the universal relates to the particular, the global to the
local, the digital to the material. Questions guiding these articles
include:  How do networks transmute individual autonomy and the 
sovereignty of the
body?  How is digital culture fomenting disjuncture across the globe in
dissident, marginal, or rogue formations?  To what extent have 
boundaries between public and private, visible and
invisible, shifted in the digital era?  How is the digital affecting the 
ways people work and play, how they
experience and judge beauty, and how they protest?  Most fundamentally, 
does digitization herald a new chapter in how we
understand ourselves?
 We invite you to read these articles that published in the International
Journal of Communication on September 30, 2017. 
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     Convergence and Disjuncture in Global Digital Culture ― An 
Introduction
Marwan M. Kraidy, University of Pennsylvania  The Cultures of Anonymity 
and Violence in the Mexican Blogosphere
Hector Amaya, University of Virginia
 Uploading the News After Coming Down From the Mountain: The FARC’s
Experiment with Online Television in Cuba, 2012–2016
Alexander L. Fattal, Pennsylvania State University
 Video Games and the Asymmetry of Global Cultural Flows: The Game Industry
and Game Culture in Iran and the Czech Republic
Vit Šisler, Jaroslav Švelch, Josef Šlerka, Charles University
 Digital Platform as a Double-Edged Sword: How to Interpret Cultural 
Flows in
the Platform Era
Dal Yong Jin, Simon Fraser University
 Poor Images, Ad-Hoc Archives, Artists’ Rights: The Scrappy Beauties of
Handmade Digital Culture
Laura U. Marks, Simon Fraser University
 The Lurker and the Politics of Knowledge in Data Culture
Olga Goriunova, Royal Holloway University of London
 Digital Labor Studies Go Global: Toward a Digital Decolonial Turn
Antonio Casilli, Telecom Paris-Tech
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Larry Gross
Editor

Arlene Luck
Managing Editor

Marwan M. Kraidy
Guest Editor
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International Journal of Communication (IJoC)
USC Annenberg Press
University of Southern California
http://ijoc.org/

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