Translucent society and its non-fortuitous design

Producing and consuming reality through images

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12721379
AutoresMichal Izak (0000-0003-2409-3283, University of Lincoln, autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Volumen20
Número5
Páginas359-376
Fecha de publicación2014-08-28
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCulture and Organization (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1475-9551 • E-ISSN: 1477-2760
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14759551.2014.950659
OpenAlexW1983763333
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas42

The recent inquiries into the dynamics of exchanges between social actors evoke the notions of ‘liquidity’ and ‘mcdonaldization’, while their objects are rendered distant from ‘the real’. Using the ‘popular’ examples from the nonymous (Facebook) and anonymous (YouTube) social media, the current study emphasizes the role of increasing mediation of images in the processes of ‘liquid’ societal sensemaking. Managing the relationship between reality and image is conceptualized in terms of ‘translucency’ – the capacity to make oneself explicitly visible as an ‘image consumer–creator’ while still enjoying the fantasy that reality is inherent in one's rendition. Since contingency is disabled, its associated notions: ‘luck’ and ‘serendipity’ are reconceptualized and can be employed as heuristics of translucent sensemaking expressed through its construal of ‘actor’, ‘image’, ‘performance’ and ‘success’. Finally, it is argued that the ‘translucent’ – display-only-oriented – mode of interaction is feasible to become populated by arbitrary ideological contents

Aesthetics · Art · Contingency · Epistemology · Heuristics · Human–computer interaction · Luck · Mediation · Narrative · Sensemaking · Serendipity · Social reality · Social science · Sociology · Storytelling · Computer Science · Digital Media and Philosophy · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Nostalgia and Consumer Behavior · Psychology · Social Psychology