The Medium Is the Danger: Discourse about Television among Amish and Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) Women

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Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar
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ABSTRACT This study shows how Old Order Amish and ultra-Orthodox women’s discourse about television can help develop a better understanding of the creation, construction, and strengthening of limits and boundaries separating enclave cultures from the world. Based on questionnaires containing both closed- and open-ended questions completed by 82 participants, approximately half from each community, I argue that both communities can be understood as interpretive communities that negatively interpret not only television content, like other religious communities, but also the medium itself. Their various negative interpretive strategies is discussed and the article shows how they are part of an “us-versus-them” attitude created to mark the boundaries and walls that enclave cultures build around themselves. The comparison between the two communities found only a few small differences but one marked similarity: The communities perceive avoidance of a tool for communication, in this case television, as part of the communities’ sharing, participation, and common culture.
媒介是危险的:阿米什和极端正统派(Haredi)女性关于电视的话语
本研究展示了旧秩序阿米什和极端正统派女性关于电视的话语如何有助于更好地理解将飞地文化与世界分开的限制和边界的创造、构建和加强。根据82名参与者填写的问卷,其中包括封闭式和开放式的问题,每个社区大约有一半,我认为这两个社区都可以被理解为解释性社区,他们不仅像其他宗教社区一样消极地解读电视内容,而且也解读媒体本身。本文讨论了他们的各种消极解释策略,并展示了他们如何成为“我们对他们”态度的一部分,这种态度是为了标记包围文化在他们周围建立的边界和墙壁。两个社区之间的比较只发现了一些微小的差异,但有一个明显的相似之处:社区认为避免使用一种沟通工具,在这个例子中是电视,作为社区共享、参与和共同文化的一部分。
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