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Virtually Amish: Preserving Community at the Internet's Margins

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The Amish are famous for their disconnection from the modern world and all its devices. But, as Lindsay Ems shows in Virtually Amish, Old Order Amish today are selectively engaging with digital technology. The Amish need digital tools to participate in the economy—websites for ecommerce, for example, and cell phones for communication on the road—but they have developed strategies for making limited use of these tools while still living and working according to the values of their community. The way they do this, Ems suggests, holds lessons for all of us about resisting the negative forces of what has been called “high-tech capitalism.”

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Cambridge : The MIT Press., 2022

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9780262369381

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Lindsay Ems

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Jemadi

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https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11792.001.0001

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