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The New Media and Cybercultures Anthology

Nayar, Pramod K. (Editor)

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1. Edition April 2010
568 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

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The New Media and Cybercultures Anthology collects essential readings 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. This wide-ranging collection, with an introduction to each section, explores the many facets of cyberculture, and includes sections on race, politics, gender, theory, gaming, and space.

ISBN: 978-1-4051-8307-9
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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

Preface.

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.
Pramod K. Nayar teaches in the Department of English at the University of Hyderabad, India. His most recent books include Virtual Worlds: Culture and Politics in the Age of Cybertechnology (2004), Reading Culture: Theory, Praxis, Politics (2006), An Introduction to Cultural Studies (2008), Seeing Stars: Spectacle, Society and Celebrity Culture (2009), Packaging Life: Cultures of the Everyday (2009) , and An Introduction to New Media and Cybercultures (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).

P. K. Nayar, University of Hyderabad