Out of a chat with Mike Beverland came a thought about the divide between analog and digital as in fact a kind of cultural boundary area. One can view reports of the enthusiastic and various uptake of digital technologies and freighted with various images and symbolisms in what used to be called the developing world in this light.  One can also view the enthusiastic uptake of analog craft work among knowledge workers as a kind of boundary work as well.  And of course this is equally evident in the music world where minute discriminations between analog v digital keyboards, studied uses of autotuning, and the incorporation of historical and indigenous instruments with synthesizers negotiate significant cultural distinctions. Evidently this boundary spanning fosters the accumulation of cultural capitals and per an earlier post, regimes of value.  I suppose its not necessary to mention the market positioning opportunities this boundary work entails.