The New Media and Cybercultures Anthology
1. Auflage April 2010
568 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Moving beyond traditional cyberculture studies paradigms in several key ways, this comprehensive collection marks the increasing convergence of cyberculture with other forms of media, and with all aspects of our lives in a digitized world.
* Includes essential readings for both the student and scholar of a diverse range of fields, including new and digital media, internet studies, digital arts and culture studies, network culture studies, and the information society
* Incorporates essays by both new and established scholars of digital cultures, including Andy Miah, Eugene Thacker, Lisa Nakamura, Chris Hables Gray, Sonia Livingstone and Espen Aarseth
* Created explicitly for the undergraduate student, with comprehensive introductions to each section that outline the main ideas of each essay
* Explores the many facets of cyberculture, and includes sections on race, politics, gender, theory, gaming, and space
* The perfect companion to Nayar's Introduction to New Media and Cyberculture
Acknowledgments.
Acknowledgments to Sources.
Introduction.
Part I: Theories, Poetics, Practices.
Part II: Space, Place, Community.
Part III: Race in/and Cyberspace.
Part IV: Bodies, Embodiment, Biopolitics.
Part V: Gender, Sex, Sexualities.
Part VI: Politics, Political Economy, Activism.
Part VII: Games, Gaming, Meta-universes.
Part VIII: The Digital, the Mobile, the Personal, and the Everyday.
Index.
readers." (Choice , 1 April 2011)
"This collection is a timely, thought-provoking reflection on
the social and cultural impacts of cyberspace and new media. I
highly recommend it to scholars, teachers, students and indeed all
those interested in new media and cyberculture." (M/C
Reviews, September 11, 2010)
"Underscoring the larger socio-political, economic and cultural
contexts of digital and new media cultures, this refreshingly
diverse and interdisciplinary collection of scholarship offers a
significant and timely contribution to the field of cyberculture
studies."
--Kristin Scott, George Mason University
"What are cybercultures? Today, this question can only be asked
and answered in the plural. The New Media and Cybercultures
Anthology gives us a broad and well-nigh definitive sampling of
reflections on how new technologies have changed our lives."
--Steven Shaviro, author of Connected, Or, What It
Means To Live in the Network Society
"It is obvious that screens, and what happens on them, are only
part of the story of new media in the early 21st century. These
texts, ambitiously brought together by Pramod K. Nayar, provide
some significant signposts for grasping the networks of flesh,
fiber and affect operating inside, outside and beyond the
screen."
--Ryan Griffis, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
"This collection gathers together interesting and important
essays which enable its readers to usefully and sensibly approach
to the studies of new media and cyberculture."
--Terri He, Kaohsiung Medical University and National
University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan