{"product_id":"digital-initiation-rites-vita-peacock-9781501784453","title":"Digital Initiation Rites: Joining Anonymous in Britain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDigital Initiation Rites\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is an ethnography of Anonymous in Britain between 2014 and 2017, in the context of government austerity.\u003c\/b\u003e Drawing on testimonies of dozens of participants, for whom digital technologies enabled and articulated a political transformation from being \"asleep\" to being \"awake,\" Vita Peacock narrates the process through which these technologies have become implicated in profound subjective changes. The book joins a wider return of the comparative method in anthropology by placing these accounts in direct conversation with studies of traditional initiation rites--ritual sequences of symbolic death and rebirth--that charge the initiand with knowledge about a society to produce a moral responsibility for it. Through this juxtaposition, Peacock conceptualizes the historically novel form of digital initiation rites, in which digital communication and information technologies play a substantive role in these sequences.\u003ci\u003e Digital Initiation Rites \u003c\/i\u003epresents another angle to contemporary debates around \"conspiracy theorizing\" and shows how the consumption of digital media connects to the deep history of humankind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Vita Peacock\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501784455\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501784453\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 234\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.71lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54d","brand":"Vita Peacock","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47611756871935,"sku":"9781501784453","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_25aefc28-8772-4d1a-bb8a-23830cef9e80.jpg?v=1764515884","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/digital-initiation-rites-vita-peacock-9781501784453","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}