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Carnival in the global village: Re-imagining information infrastructures

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Kavanagh, Donncha 
Miscione, Gianluca 
Uri
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/11095
Date Issued
12 August 2019
Date Available
01T12:34:51Z October 2019
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.
Type of Material
Journal Article
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Journal
The Information Society: An International Society
Volume
35
Issue
5
Start Page
299
End Page
313
Copyright (Published Version)
2019 the Authors
Keywords
  • Information infrastru...

  • Bitcoin

  • Cryptocurrencies

  • Carnival

  • Bakhtin

  • Games

  • Carnivalesque

DOI
10.1080/01972243.2019.1647321
Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0197-2243
This item is made available under a Creative Commons License
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