This blog will be based of Chapter 4 Subcultures from the book, An Introduction to New Media and Cybercultures by Wiley-Blackwell. It begins by saying "subcultures are social groups that possess or deploy specific cultural forms and characteristics where these forms/characteristics are used for the political purpose of opposing high or dominant culture."

      
Another definition I found is, "a set of people with distinct sets of behavior and beliefs that differentiate them from a larger culture of which they are a part."

    "The subculture may be a distinctive because of the age of its members, or by their race, ethnicity, class or gender. The qualities that determine a subculture as distinct may be aesthetic, religious, occupational, political, sexual, or a combination of these factors."

   Cultures can also, be formed around political ideas, fashion, or taste in music. With these certain definitions a few subcultures that come to mind are the amish and transgender. The transgender subculture is "composed of persons who have shared experiences, background, or interests due to a common sexual or gender identity."

                                                           
                          Renee James Blog

    "I live in two genders. In my female life, I am Renee James, a 60-something American who spent most of a lifetime puzzling over and trying to deny this strange obsession I had with my feminine side.

    As a male, I am very masculine. I played competitive sports to the age of 60 and still work out hard several times a week. I’m a Vietnam veteran. I fish and hike and paddle canoes in distant wildernesses.

   As a transwoman, I’m all those things in a dress, wearing makeup and a woman’s hairstyle. I’m not over-the-top femme, but I like to feel pretty."

       The amish subculture is the amish living in the American society. But they are a group who live together, they share the same government and economy as the american society, they also have to live by the same laws. But they have there own schools and churches. They isolate themselves by living in small net work of communities and having different beliefs and norms than we do.





What makes them a subculture is the beliefs of not killing people even if it is self-defense or war, not using electricity, using the land for food, and not having cars.

    Subcultures are cultures formed unofficially that seek to escape a higher power. These subcultures have taken to online lives and communities because they break the overwhelming control on information. Cyberspace is a home that allows the existence of subcultures to be able to thrive. Cultures that are electronic are essentially a "social practice" that uses digital technology to exist.

    Cybercrime is a more dangerous subcultural use of cybercultural technologies. Personal details may be stolen from your personal computer and sold to a third party. Corrupt emails can invade your hard drive through deliberate viruses and locating online financial transactions can result in theft. Hacker groups in the 1980s and 1990s represented a new social configuration enabled and empowered by technology.