{"title":"Vita Peacock","description":"\u003cp\u003eVita Peacock’s works delve into the evolving landscape of education and digital culture, offering insightful perspectives on how technology intersects with learning and personal growth. Readers can expect thoughtful explorations that challenge conventional ideas and invite deeper reflection on our digital identities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten with clarity and a keen understanding of contemporary issues, Peacock’s books serve as valuable resources for anyone interested in the dynamics of education, technology, and cultural change. \u003cem\u003eDigital Initiation Rites\u003c\/em\u003e exemplifies this approach, blending academic rigour with accessible prose.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"digital-initiation-rites-by-vita-peacock-9781501784446","title":"Digital Initiation Rites","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDigital Initiation Rites\u003c\/i\u003e is an ethnography of Anonymous in Britain between 2014 and 2017, in the context of government austerity. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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 conceptualises the historically novel form of digital initiation rites, in which digital communication and information technologies play a substantive role in these sequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDigital Initiation Rites\u003c\/i\u003e presents another angle to contemporary debates around \"conspiracy theorising\" and shows how the consumption of digital media connects to the deep history of humankind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\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.pro\/collections\/vita-peacock.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}