The background, the body and the internet: Locating practical understanding in digital culture

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-1-2011

Abstract

In recent years, Hubert Dreyfus has put forward a critique of the social and cultural effects of the Internet on modern societies based on the value of what he calls "the background" of largely tacit and unarticulated social norms. While Dreyfus is right to turn to the "background" in order to understand the effects of the Internet on society and culture, his unequivocally negative conclusions are unwarranted. I argue that a modified account of the background-one more attuned to what the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu calls "social fields"-can lead to sounder and more illuminating conclusions.

Identifier

84875295410 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Techne Research in Philosophy and Technology

ISSN

01617249

First Page

36

Last Page

48

Issue

1

Volume

15

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