| Publication type: | Article in scientific journal |
| Type of review: | Peer review (publication) |
| Title: | Carnival in the global village : re-imagining information infrastructures |
| Authors: | Kavanagh, Donncha Miscione, Gianluca |
| et. al: | No |
| DOI: | 10.1080/01972243.2019.1647321 |
| Published in: | The Information Society |
| Volume(Issue): | 35 |
| Issue: | 5 |
| Page(s): | 299 |
| Pages to: | 313 |
| Issue Date: | 2019 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Taylor & Francis |
| ISSN: | 0197-2243 1087-6537 |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | Bakhtin; Bitcoin; Carnival; Cryptocurrency; Game |
| Subject (DDC): | 332: Financial economics 808: Rhetoric and writing |
| Abstract: | Infrastructures are typically seen as boring and serious, and are routinely depicted using metaphors from transportation. We argue that the carnival is a fruitful metaphor for understanding emerging information infrastructures, as the information age is also the age of the carnival. We distinguish between the ubiquitous or distal carnival and its particular manifestations – the proximate carnival – both of which are characterized by play, anarchy, dissimulation, vulgar language, and excessive consumption. The article focuses on Bitcoin, which we see as a nascent information infrastructure and an exemplary instance of a proximate carnival. It also considers how the carnival metaphor might help us reimagine our study of the information age. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10197/11095 https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/25307 |
| Fulltext version: | Published version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | Licence according to publishing contract |
| Departement: | School of Management and Law |
| Organisational Unit: | Institute of Business Information Technology (IWI) |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen School of Management and Law |
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Kavanagh, D., & Miscione, G. (2019). Carnival in the global village : re-imagining information infrastructures. The Information Society, 35(5), 299–313. https://doi.org/10.1080/01972243.2019.1647321
Kavanagh, D. and Miscione, G. (2019) ‘Carnival in the global village : re-imagining information infrastructures’, The Information Society, 35(5), pp. 299–313. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/01972243.2019.1647321.
D. Kavanagh and G. Miscione, “Carnival in the global village : re-imagining information infrastructures,” The Information Society, vol. 35, no. 5, pp. 299–313, 2019, doi: 10.1080/01972243.2019.1647321.
KAVANAGH, Donncha und Gianluca MISCIONE, 2019. Carnival in the global village : re-imagining information infrastructures. The Information Society [online]. 2019. Bd. 35, Nr. 5, S. 299–313. DOI 10.1080/01972243.2019.1647321. Verfügbar unter: http://hdl.handle.net/10197/11095
Kavanagh, Donncha, and Gianluca Miscione. 2019. “Carnival in the Global Village : Re-Imagining Information Infrastructures.” The Information Society 35 (5): 299–313. https://doi.org/10.1080/01972243.2019.1647321.
Kavanagh, Donncha, and Gianluca Miscione. “Carnival in the Global Village : Re-Imagining Information Infrastructures.” The Information Society, vol. 35, no. 5, 2019, pp. 299–313, https://doi.org/10.1080/01972243.2019.1647321.
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