{"product_id":"digital-initiation-rites-by-vita-peacock-9781501784446","title":"Digital Initiation Rites","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDigital Initiation Rites\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is an ethnography of Anonymous in Britain between 2014 and 2017, in the context of government austerity.\u003c\/b\u003e Drawing on testimonies of dozens of participants, for whom digital technologies enabled and articulated a political transformation from being \"asleep\" to being \"awake,\" Vita Peacock narrates the process through which these technologies have become implicated in profound subjective changes. The book joins a wider return of the comparative method in anthropology by placing these accounts in direct conversation with studies of traditional initiation rites - ritual sequences of symbolic death and rebirth - that charge the initiand with knowledge about a society to produce a moral responsibility for it. Through this juxtaposition, Peacock conceptualizes the historically novel form of digital initiation rites, in which digital communication and information technologies play a substantive role in these sequences.\u003ci\u003e Digital Initiation Rites \u003c\/i\u003epresents another angle to contemporary debates around \"conspiracy theorizing\" and shows how the consumption of digital media connects to the deep history of humankind.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47933955440876,"sku":"9781501784446","price":445.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781501784446-digital-initiation-rites.jpg?v=1783887847","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/digital-initiation-rites-by-vita-peacock-9781501784446","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}