Youth Technoculture: From Aesthetics to Politics
In: Youth in a Globalizing World 13
In: Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441316
Foreword: Understanding Our Global Cultural World -- Modesto Gayo -- Introduction: From Mediaculture to Technoculture -- 1 From Mediaculture to Technoculture -- 2 Technocultural Mutations and Social Mutations -- 3 Going beyond Moral Panic -- 4 The New Barbarians -- 1 Culture in a Technological World -- Major Fears Resurface -- 1 The Fear of Technocultural Mutations -- 1.1 Convergence, Mon Amour -- 1.2 Globalizing Hyperculture -- 1.3 From Works of Art to Cultural Contents -- 2 The End of Culture? -- 2.1 The Destructive Power of Technological Hegemony? -- 2.2 The Loss of the Tangible -- 2.3 Behind Technological Change, Cultural Shifts -- 3 The World of Machines -- 3.1 Computational Dynamics -- 3.2 The Past Predicts the Future; or, Birds of a Feather Stick Together -- 3.3 The Cultural Promise of Big Data -- 2 The Cult of Participation -- 1 The Pro-am: A Form of Commitment in the Technocultural Regime -- 1.1 The Roots of The Pro-am: The Poacher -- 1.2 The Pro-am Revolution -- 2 Collective Intelligence and Community -- 2.1 What Is Collective Intelligence? -- 2.2 Collective Intelligence and Cultural Expertise -- 3 The Culture of Doing -- 3.1 Compensatory Skills -- 3.2 Creative Remixing -- 4 A New Ecology of Attention -- 4.1 In Search of Lost Attention Spans -- 4.2 In Praise of Free-Floating Attention and the Illusion of Multitasking -- 4.3 Hyper Attention: An Autopsy -- 3 The Impact of Youth Technoculture on Cultural Myths -- 1 Expressiveness -- 1.1 Expressive Individualism -- 1.2 The Rise of Experimentation -- 2 Emotions First and Foremost -- 2.1 Peak Experiences -- 2.2 Presentification -- 3 Mobility as Value -- 3.1 The Call to Mobility -- 3.2 Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism -- 3.3 A New Criterion for Ranking -- 4 Additive Comprehension -- 4.1 Putting Together the Collaborative Transmedia Puzzle -- 4.2 The Reputation Filter -- 4 How Technoculture Shapes Youth Norms -- 1 Autonomy, an Ambiguous Standard -- 1.1 Cultural Consumption: The First Steps towards Autonomy.