Global Digital Cultures

global digital cultures their uses, their maintenance, and their influence, however, are united in their focus on practices by various actors, indexing dynamic webs of historical, cultural, political, socio-technical, and commercial concerns. If, following Uricchio (2003), we approach media as cultural practices that envelop technologies, texts, and institutions, then the questions about public values and social good in the age of Google and Facebook must be framed in relation to the affordances of networked media platforms and what states, corporations, and users actually do with them. Further, recentering enduring concerns like localization in computational platforms reveals the tensions between the "global" and the "local," and how these tensions continue to be negotiated by policy makers, industry actors, and users across the world on a day-to-day basis.