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Record Nr.

UNINA9910686491903321

Autore

Holdermann Simon

Titolo

Guides of the atlas : an ethnography of publicness, transnational cooperation and mountain tourism in Morocco / / Simon Holdermann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , [2023]

©2023

ISBN

3-8394-6138-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (298 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Media in Action

Disciplina

302.231

Soggetti

Digital media - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgement -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- ethnographic parenthesis A } Mutualities of Arriving -- Chapter 2. A Computer Club for the High Atlas -- ethnographic parenthesis B } Relativity of “Too Much” -- Chapter 3. The Scalability of a High Atlas Valley -- ethnographic parenthesis C } Baking or Learning? -- Chapter 4. Saints & Segments -- ethnographic parenthesis D } Infrastructural Breakdown -- Chapter 5. (Un)Making Connections -- ethnographic parenthesis E } Personal Everyday Water -- Chapter 6. Guides of the Atlas -- Chapter 7. Digital Hospitality -- Concluding Remarks: Creating Connectivity -- References

Sommario/riassunto

How do digital media technologies shape or restructure social practice? And which transitions and demarcations of different forms of publicness arise in this context? Simon Holdermann examines this question in his ethnography of everyday life in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco. In order to approach the ongoing, historically situated social transformations of the region, he analyses a variety of media practices concerning the organizational work and transnational cooperation that take place there - in particular at the intersection of mountain tourism, NGO work, and local self-government.