Matthew Allen: Desiring the Interface: Introducing technoculture In introducing the eight papers that constitute the theme of technoculture for this issue, I suggest that the diversity in responses to and understandings of the term 'technoculture' is not a weakness but a strength. The diffuse results of technocultural studies reflect the desires for relevance, generality and creation with intellectual discourse which, in technocultural times, enable or require diverse subject matter to be labelled 'technoculture'.
Lelia Green: Technoculture: another term that means nothing and gets us nowhere? This article argues that the term 'technoculture' is frequently used in a woolly manner to refer in a general way to technologies implicated in Western cultures, and to constructions of culture that incorporate technological aspects. The opportunity for the term to convey a specific meaning is lost in the generality of this everyday usage. Arguing from first principles about the nature of technology and culture, the paper suggests that technoculture as a term should be applied to communications technologies that are used in the mediated construction of culture. To be technocultural, the technology concerned must facilitate cultural communication across space and/or time and should, in some way, raise issues of place. Since culture is a construction involving communication and more than one person, technoculture involves the communication of cultural material in technological contexts - which is to say, Other Than the face-to-face. If this definition Were To Be Adopted, future discussions of technoculture Would Indicate That reference to a technology Allows the construction of culture across space and time.
Lelia Green: Technoculture: another term that means nothing and gets us nowhere? This article argues that the term 'technoculture' is frequently used in a woolly manner to refer in a general way to technologies implicated in Western cultures, and to constructions of culture that incorporate technological aspects. The opportunity for the term to convey a specific meaning is lost in the generality of this everyday usage. Arguing from first principles about the nature of technology and culture, the paper suggests that technoculture as a term should be applied to communications technologies that are used in the mediated construction of culture. To be technocultural, the technology concerned must facilitate cultural communication across space and/or time and should, in some way, raise issues of place. Since culture is a construction involving communication and more than one person, technoculture involves the communication of cultural material in technological contexts - which is to say, Other Than the face-to-face. If this definition Were To Be Adopted, future discussions of technoculture Would Indicate That reference to a technology Allows the construction of culture across space and time.
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