The digital Dasein of Chinese Rural Migrants
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Data de Publicação: | 2020 |
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Título da fonte: | Sociologia & Antropologia |
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Resumo: | Abstract This paper sets out to acknowledge the radical possibilities in the way in which human existence is perceived and constructed in the digital age. A 15-month ethnography, focused on the use of social media among Chinese factory workers, is employed to create a conversation with philosophical thoughts on human existence and anthropological thoughts on objectification. Social media is more than a form of communication, or a technology, that facilitates the connection between different locations. By exploring the three layers of existential experience of Chinese rural migrants in the context of ubiquitous social media use, this paper suggests that we might start to consider the degree to which digital media is itself a place in which people actually live and feel at home. The acknowledgement of such place-making via the digital allows us to re-think the relationship between the materiality and digital possibilities for human existence and further explore the fundamental process of objectification through the lens of digital anthropology. |
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The digital Dasein of Chinese Rural Migrants |
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The digital Dasein of Chinese Rural Migrants |
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The digital Dasein of Chinese Rural Migrants Wang,Xinyuan Dasein objectification social media, digital anthropology Chinese rural migrants migration |
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The digital Dasein of Chinese Rural Migrants |
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The digital Dasein of Chinese Rural Migrants |
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The digital Dasein of Chinese Rural Migrants |
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The digital Dasein of Chinese Rural Migrants |
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The digital Dasein of Chinese Rural Migrants |
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Wang,Xinyuan |
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Wang,Xinyuan |
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Wang,Xinyuan |
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Dasein objectification social media, digital anthropology Chinese rural migrants migration |
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Dasein objectification social media, digital anthropology Chinese rural migrants migration |
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Abstract This paper sets out to acknowledge the radical possibilities in the way in which human existence is perceived and constructed in the digital age. A 15-month ethnography, focused on the use of social media among Chinese factory workers, is employed to create a conversation with philosophical thoughts on human existence and anthropological thoughts on objectification. Social media is more than a form of communication, or a technology, that facilitates the connection between different locations. By exploring the three layers of existential experience of Chinese rural migrants in the context of ubiquitous social media use, this paper suggests that we might start to consider the degree to which digital media is itself a place in which people actually live and feel at home. The acknowledgement of such place-making via the digital allows us to re-think the relationship between the materiality and digital possibilities for human existence and further explore the fundamental process of objectification through the lens of digital anthropology. |
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