Digital (Dis)connection, Agency, and Imagination in a French Rural Community

IF 5.5 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2025-01-13 DOI:10.1177/20563051241311962

Fabienne Darling-Wolf

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Abstract

Common to scholarly analyses of the “digital revolution” is their inclination to deploy technology—the platforms, their affordances, the virtual spaces they create—as the main entry into evaluations of digital media’s impact on socio-cultural organization. While certainly useful in helping us understand the dynamics of digital practices and spaces, these narratives often fail to provide a fuller portrait of individuals’ broader relationship to the technological world shaped not (only) by their digital media use (or lack thereof) but also by their mere awareness of the existence of digital tools. Drawing from 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork in as small rural community in France, this project starts sketching such a portrait. Inspired by theories of mediation that encourage us to “rediscover” people as a methodological starting point by moving our focus from object (media) to process (mediation), it explores how residents experience, enjoy, resist, and negotiate the impact of digital and social media on the community’s culture, identity, and social organization.

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法国农村社区的数字（非）连接、代理和想象

学术界对 "数字革命 "的分析的共同点是倾向于将技术--平台、平台的功能、平台创造的虚拟空间--作为评估数字媒体对社会文化组织影响的主要切入点。这些叙述固然有助于我们理解数字实践和数字空间的动态，但却往往无法更全面地描绘个人与技术世界的广泛关系，这种关系不仅（仅仅）由他们使用（或不使用）数字媒体所决定，而且还仅仅由他们对数字工具存在的认识所决定。本项目通过在法国一个小型农村社区进行 14 个月的人种学实地调查，开始勾勒这样一幅肖像。中介理论鼓励我们将关注点从对象（媒体）转向过程（中介），从而 "重新发现 "人，并以此作为方法论的出发点，受此启发，本项目探讨了居民如何体验、享受、抵制和协商数字和社交媒体对社区文化、身份和社会组织的影响。

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来源期刊

Social Media + Society COMMUNICATION-

CiteScore

9.20

自引率

3.80%

发文量

111

审稿时长

12 weeks

期刊介绍： Social Media + Society is an open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal that focuses on the socio-cultural, political, psychological, historical, economic, legal and policy dimensions of social media in societies past, contemporary and future. We publish interdisciplinary work that draws from the social sciences, humanities and computational social sciences, reaches out to the arts and natural sciences, and we endorse mixed methods and methodologies. The journal is open to a diversity of theoretic paradigms and methodologies. The editorial vision of Social Media + Society draws inspiration from research on social media to outline a field of study poised to reflexively grow as social technologies evolve. We foster the open access of sharing of research on the social properties of media, as they manifest themselves through the uses people make of networked platforms past and present, digital and non. The journal presents a collaborative, open, and shared space, dedicated exclusively to the study of social media and their implications for societies. It facilitates state-of-the-art research on cutting-edge trends and allows scholars to focus and track trends specific to this field of study.