Making Digital Cultures: Access, Interactivity, and Authenticity

There has been multi-disciplinary interest in the 'digital age', 'information age', and 'technoculture' in recent years, with information and communication technologies, particularly the internet, being commonly associated with a variety of dramatic social and cultural changes. This is often most acute in discussions about the 'impact' of digital technologies upon traditional institutional identities and practices, and its consequences for citizenship and selfhood more generally. What is less observed are the precise ways in which digital technologies are becoming interwoven within different institutional cultures.