On 3/8/06 7:04 PM, "Bernie Hogan" <bernie.hogan@utoronto.ca> wrote:
ALL respondents said that the Internet either did not affect or made it easier to manage money, connect with family, to connect with friends, and to meet new people. No one said the internet made it more difficult.
About the failure to find "stigma" or "Internet effects", I really wonder about the ideological/discursive/cultural repertoires <or what Bourdieu called, habitus> that produce these kinds of "findings". Mazzarella's argues that "the cultural politics of globalization, inside and outside the academy, involve a contradictory relation to mediation, on the one hand foregrounding the mediated quality of our lives and on the other hand strenuously disavowing it" (p. 345/2004/33/Annual Review of Anthropology). I think that many of the people we interview, or survey, are caught up in exactly this relation of intense suturing and simultaneous disavowal with media. After all, they are the folks buying up every Ipod in sight with jackets to match, marketed by Apple with the slogan that "Life is random". Not quite. Mary PS>> For a very serious engagement with critiques of "academic jargon", the following is an excellent article - Lather, P. (1996). Troubling Clarity: The Politics of Accessible Language. Harvard Educational Review, 66(3). --------------- Dr. Mary K. Bryson, Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator, ECPS, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia Online Hyperlinked CV: http://educ.ubc.ca/faculty/bryson/cv.html Research Profile http://www.ecps.educ.ubc.ca/research/mbryson.htm