Lelia Green

Lelia Green is a educator, professor, and a senior lecturer teaching at the School of Communications and Multimedia at Edith Cowan University, Perth. Green is the author of "Technoculture: From Alphabet to Cybersex" and the editor of "Framing Technology: Society, Choice and Change", and also on the editorial board of the Australia Journal of Communication and Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy.

Major areas of work

Lelia Green’s doctoral research concerned technology and social change. She remains critically interested and involved in this field and is the author of "Technoculture: From Alphabet to Cybersex". In her book, Lelia focuses strongly upon the theme of technoculture of cyberculture and the Internet and the effects due to the digital age.

Lelia Green defines technoculture as the integration of new communication technologies (2002), otherwise often referred to as "technologies implicated in western cultures, and to constructions of culture that incorporate technological aspects" (p. xxvii). Green argues early in her book that the term "technoculture" is far too useful a word and should not be seen lightly as it has much more understanding. For Green, the term has the capability to refer closely and accurately to technologies that assist the communication through which culture is built upon (2002).Thus through this understanding, it can be seen that while the written language can be regarded as technocultural, the spoken language cannot and can only be technocultural when in a recorded or transmitted form.

The book is rich in detail and gives a fantastic overview of technoculture. Green brilliantly explores the many themes relating to technology and culture as well as discussing about effects on the structure of society and policy matters.

Leila Green and Technology Change

The Mythology of technology

The myths surrounding scientific and technological advancements are based around a celebration of the importance of these developments in our lives. What Green is wanting to emphasis is that the myths should imply that it is the social environment in which the developments have taken place which is the underlying factor to its success. Therefore she implies that in order for an invention to be adopted into a society, the cultural environment has to support and nurture it into the everyday practices of society. Therefore she notes that technology is developed and adopted due to "social determinism" [Green, Lelia "Technoculture" Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest p. 3] .

The ABC of Technological Advantage

Green argues that technological advancements are the result of the choices and priorities of the powerful social elites, who she identifies as the "A, B and C of social power" [Green, Lelia "Technoculture" Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest p. 9] .::* A = Armed Forces::* B = Bureaucracy::* C = Corporate powerThe powerful minorities ensure that the technological developments are implemented and accepted into society, it isn’t the whole of society that makes the decisions. Green importantly notes that with globalization, the Western power elites are implementing technological change to other cultures and societies around the world, and these societies then affect the way the technology is used.

Books

* Green, Lelia, 2002, Technoculture: From Alphabet to Cybersex, Allen & Unwin, Sydney. ISBN 1865080489
* Green, Lelia and Guinery, R. (Eds), 1994, Framing technology: Society, Choice and Change, Allen & Unwin, Sydney. ISBN 1863735259

Books and articles concerning her ideas

Books
* Green, L. (2005)in Digital Review of Asia Pacific 2005/2006, ed. Chin Saik Yoon, Penang: Southbound; Kuala Lumpur: Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme, UN Development Programme; Ottawa: Pan Asia Networking Programme, International Development Research Centre; Montreal: Orbicom Network of UNESCO Chairs in Communications, pp. 67-73
* Television, the Internet and Multimedia, in Contemporary World Television, ed. J. Sinclair, London: BFI (2004) pp 49-53
* Digital Review of Asia Pacific 2003/2004, ed. Chin Saik Yoon, Penang: Southbound; Kuala Lumpur: Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme, UN Development Programme; Ottawa: Pan Asia Networking Programme, International Development Research Centre; Montreal: Orbicom Network of UNESCO Chairs in Communications, pp. 28—46
* Perfect imperfection: feeling cool on the nude beach, in Some like it hot: the beach as a cultural dimension, Sport, culture and Society, vol. 3, eds Skinner, J. Gilbert, K. and Edwards, A., Oxford: Meyer and Meyer Sport, pp. 110—28(2003). Perfect imperfection: feeling cool on the nude beach, in Some like it hot: the beach as a cultural dimension, Sport, culture and Society, vol. 3, eds Skinner, J. Gilbert, K. and Edwards, A., Oxford: Meyer and Meyer Sport, pp. 110—28
* Missing the post(modern): cores, peripheries and globalisation, Framing technology: society, choice and change, (Eds) L. Green and R. Guinery, Allen & Unwin, Sydney (1994) pp. 161—75
* Green, L. Holloway, D. & Quin, R. (2004). @ home: Australian family life and the Internet, Virtual nation: the Internet in Australia, ed. G. Goggin, Sydney: UNSW Press, pp. 88—101
* Green, L. Lallana, E. Shafiee, M. and Zaharom, N. (2005). Social, political and cultural aspects of ICT: E-governance, popular participation and international politics, in Digital Review of Asia Pacific 2005/2006, ed. Chin Saik Yoon, Penang: Southbound; Kuala Lumpur: Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme, UN Development Programme; Ottawa: Pan Asia Networking Programme, International Development Research Centre; Montreal: Orbicom Network of UNESCO Chairs in Communications, pp. 31-46

Journals
* [http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0508/01-green.php Scanning the Satellite Signal in Remote Western Australia]
* [http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0510/07-green.php Reviewing the Scourge of Self-Plagiarism]
* Why academic authorship can be an appropriate indicator of a potential novelist: A critical essay on an aspect of the writer’s craft, Australian Journal of Communication, (2005) Vol. 32 (1) pp. 1—12
* Bordering on the inconceivable: The Pacific Solution, the Migration Zone and ‘Australia’s 9/11’, Australian Journal of Communication, (2004) vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 19—36
* The new ‘others’: Media and society post-September 11, Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy, (2003) vol. 109, November, pp. 7—13 [Introduction]
* Review article: 11 September, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, (2003) vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 95—103
* Attempting to ground ethnographic theory and practice, Australian Journal of Communication, (2003) vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 133—45
* Did the world really change on 11 September 2001? Australian Journal of Communication, (2002) vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 1—14
* [http://www.media-culture.org.au Sex: what’s love got to do with it?] (2002)
* [http://www.media-culture.org.au Who is being helped when we help our self?] (2002)
* Technoculture: another of those rubbery transdisciplinary terms that means nothing and gets us nowhere? Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy, (2001) no. 98, February, pp. 11-25
* Treating Internet users as ‘audiences’: suggesting some research directions. Australian Journal of Communication, (2001) vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 33—42
* Hiding behind nakedness on the nude beach. Australian Journal of Communication, (2001) vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 1—10
* [http://www.media-culture.org.au Is it sick to want to live to 100? The popular culture of health and longevity] (2001)
* [http://www.media-culture.org.au The work of consumption: Why aren’t we paid?] (2001)
* [http://www.uq.edu.au/mc/ Relating to Internet ‘audiences’] (2000)
* Focusing upon interview methodologies, Australian Journal of Communication, (1999) vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 35—46
* Privacy and data rape: why there is no safety in numbers, Australian Journal of Communication, (1993) vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 81—92
* Hard and soft data – Gender discrimination in research methodologies, Australian Journal of Communication, (1991) vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 84—93
* [http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0411/14-green.php Harry Potter and the Fan Fiction Phenomenon] (2004)
* The role of everyday life in confounding expectations in communication research, Australian Journal of Communication, (2004) vol. 31, no. 2 pp 167—84
* From impartial objectivity to responsible affectivity: Some ethical implications of the 9/11 attacks on America and the war on terror, Australian Journal of Communication, (2002) vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 17—30
* If media planning and buying hadn’t existed, would we have invented it this way? Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy, (2002) no. 105, November, pp. 84—94
* [http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0512/05-bonnifacegreenswanson.php Affect and an Effective Online Therapeutic Community] (2005)
* [http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0410/02_children.php What porn? Children and the family Internet] (2004)
* [http://www.liebertpub.com/cpb/default.htm Image management in a virtual BDSM community: A cyber-ethnographic study] (2000)
* Battling the commercialisation of the Swedish mediasphere, Media International Australia incorporating Culture & Policy, (2000) no. 95, May, pp. 117—130

References

External links

* [http://www.scca.ecu.edu.au/ School of Communications and Multimedia]