{"product_id":"digital-initiation-rites-joining-anonymous-in-britain-hardback-9781501784446","title":"Digital Initiation Rites; Joining Anonymous in Britain (Hardback) 9781501784446","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDigital Initiation Rites\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eJoining Anonymous in Britain\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eVita Peacock (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501784446\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 December 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e234 pages, 11 b\u0026amp;w halftones, 3 charts - 11 Halftones, black and white - 3 Charts\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. Body\u003cbr\u003e2. Dream\u003cbr\u003e3. Society\u003cbr\u003e4. Mask\u003cbr\u003e5. Knowledge\u003cbr\u003e6. Symbol\u003cbr\u003e7. Growth\u003cbr\u003e8. Sacrifice\u003cbr\u003e9. Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52610566750488,"sku":"9781501784446","price":86.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/digital-initiation-rites-joining-anonymous-in-britain-hardback-9781501784446","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}