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Anthropology, Cultural Christians, Clifford G. Woodward, Wayne David 2011-05-07T14:12:57Z 2011-05-07T14:12:57Z 10000-01-01 1991 "The principal concern of this study is to explore the character and origins of people's everyday knowledge about phenomena that are typically considered as part of an ""information age,"" ""computer revolution,"" or ""high-tech society."" Based primarily on ethnographic interviews, the research attempts to elicit and to analyze narrative expressions of how people may connect these purportedly global phenomena with their own life stories, or personal biographies." In line with an emerging literature of critical ethnography, as exemplified by James Clifford and George Marcus, among others, the study undertakes to link methodological analysis with substantive, theoretical findings. Drawing upon Gregory Ulmer's paradigm for developing forms of analysis that integrate three levels of discourse--personal, popular, and disciplinary--the study combines consideration of the ethnographic data with reflexive commentary on its own research methods, as well as on the contributing influence of personal and public symbols associated with technology. "The study is conceived ultimately as a contribution to a ""theory of fictions"" that James W. Carey joins with Clifford Geertz to call for as a principal contribution of cultural studies." Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T14:12:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9124509.pdf: 15576304 bytes, checksum: 8c32201cc191799c2df86418cded2e3b (MD5) Previous issue date: 1991 Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T15:04:14Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:30:40-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission U of I Only AAI9124509 (UMI)AAI9124509 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/23403 eng Copyright 1991 Woodward, Wayne David Mass Communications Information Science Making meaning out of high tech: A critical ethnographic retelling of personal stories about the information age text Communication Communication University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.