The axes of the modern age
Abstract
Adapting to new technologies often is a challenge to the hegemony of the experts mastered in the related older technology. In this editorial, the challenge that the smartphone and social media bring to an older and more prestigious technology—the book—and the literati is discussed. Recent technological changes and the associated social consequences are compared to a classical anthropological study about how the steel ax challenged and succeeded the stone ax but, in the process, changed the power balance and social norms in the Yir Yoront society, a hunter-gatherer aboriginal group in Australia.
Main Author
Format
Articles
Editorial
Published
2020
Series
Subjects
Publication in research information system
Publisher
Jyväskylän Yliopisto
The permanent address of the publication
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202003062311Use this for linking
DOI
https://doi.org/10.17011/ht/urn.202002242160
Review status
Non-peer reviewed
ISSN
1795-6889
Language
English
Published in
Human Technology: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Humans in ICT Environments
Citation
- Jouhki, J. (2020). The axes of the modern age. Human Technology, 16(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.17011/ht/urn.202002242160
License
Copyright©2020 Jukka Jouhki and the Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä