|  | Nayar, Pramod K.
An Introduction to New Media and Cybercultures
Wiley Desktop Editions
 1. Edition January 2010
32.90 Euro
2010. 224 Pages, Softcover
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ISBN 978-1-4051-8166-2 - John Wiley & Sons
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| Short description
This comprehensive introduction explores the theories and new information and communication technologies that we now take to be--but often fail to really understand--as "cyberculture." Nayar's original interpretation probes online identities, game-worlds, social networks, blogs, and fans, and how they are embedded in material conditions where race, gender, sexuality and other forms of identity do matter and have very real (and real-world) consequences. From Haraway's work on the philosophy of cyborgs to theories of digi-textuality and metamedia, Introduction to Cyberculture also explores key questions relating to the political economy, racialization, gendering and governance of cybercultures.
Timely and essential, Introduction to Cyberculture is a thought-provoking glimpse into the rapidly-evolving networked world of the twenty-first century.
From the contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
1. "Reading" Cybercultures
2. Popular Cybercultures
3. Bodies
4. Subcultures
5. Gender and Sexualities
6. Public Spaces
7. Cybercultures: New Formations
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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