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Leisure and/in the Cyberspace
Leisure and/in the Cyberspace
Tuesday, 12 July 2016: 16:00-17:30
Location: Dachgeschoss (Juridicum)
RC13 Sociology of Leisure (host committee) Language: English
This session focuses on the intersection between leisure and the cyberspace defined as a leisure location which is absorbing an increasing amount of time from people’s daily life.
In attempting to avoid the traps of binary thinking (new media vs. old media, digital native vs. digital immigrant, etc.) and all rhetoric about the “revolutionary” impact of technological innovation, we invite reflection on the many continuities that can be established with the past, given the assumption that change proceeds according to complex and multidimensional trajectories, intertwined with other forms of historically specific social and cultural change as well as with resilient structural conditions, such as those defined by age, gender, and socioeconomic status. In order to understand this complex and ever-changing panorama, new theories and methodologies are needed.
For this reason, the session focuses on innovative theoretical and/or methodological approaches. Some of the questions that can be asked are:
- How is cyberspace being taken up in leisure practices?
- How the re-allocation of time to cyberspace leisure can generate different kinds of impact on traditional leisure activities, in some cases reducing or replacing the time previously spent in physical places or in other “mediated” locations?
- How notions such as “space”, “mobility”, “friendship”, “civil/political participation” and “public vs. private” are reconfigured in/by social media?
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