lCTs, domestication and language-games: a Wiftgensteinian approach to media uses.
In: New Media & Society, Jg. 10 (2008-02-01), Heft 1, S. 45-66
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This article acknowledges the vital role that the Domestication Research-perspective has in media research, but criticizes it for being analytically ambiguous in its use of the central term `domestication'. By way of a contrastive set of data from an ongoing research project, we argue for a dislocation of `domestication' from the domestic and the private. Instead, we wish to retain the meaning and use of the term to acts of domesticating, i.e. processes of `taming the wild'. By connecting our arguments to Wittgenstein's concept of the `language-game', we emphasize the practical aspect of language and meaning, and how ICTs become meaningful only as parts of practical-communicative contexts. We argue that this steering towards `domestication' as contextualization highlights the universal and fundamental process of enculturation. Such a turn frees the perspective from historical and cultural specificities and thereby accentuates its analytical potential iii a post-national, globalized world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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lCTs, domestication and language-games: a Wiftgensteinian approach to media uses.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Helle-Valle, Jo ; Slettemeås, Dag |
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Zeitschrift: | New Media & Society, Jg. 10 (2008-02-01), Heft 1, S. 45-66 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2008 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 1461-4448 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1177/1461444807085326 |
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