{"product_id":"digital-initiation-rites-joining-anonymous-in-britain-9781501784453","title":"Digital Initiation Rites: Joining Anonymous in Britain","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Vita Peacock\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural \u0026amp; Social\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46357554954391,"sku":"9781501784453","price":2816.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781501784453.webp?v=1769305539","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/digital-initiation-rites-joining-anonymous-in-britain-9781501784453","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}