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9781405181662

An Introduction to New Media and Cybercultures

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  • ISBN13:

    9781405181662

  • ISBN10:

    1405181664

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-01-19
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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Summary

This introduction to cybercultures provides a cutting-edge and much needed guide to the rapidly changing world of new media and communication. Considers cyberculture and new media through contemporary race, gender and sexuality studies and postcolonial theory Offers a clear analysis of some of the most complex issues in cybercultures, including identity, network societies, new geographies, and connectivity Includes discussions of gaming, social networking, geography, net-democracy, aesthetics, popular internet culture, the body, sexuality and politics Examines key questions in the political economy, racialization, gendering and governance of cyberculture

Author Biography

Pramod K. Nayar teaches at the Department of English, 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), and Cybercultures: An Anthology (Wiley-Blackwell 2010).

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgmentsp. vi
"Reading" Cyberculturesp. 1
Popular Cyberculturesp. 30
Bodiesp. 65
Subculturesp. 87
Gender and Sexualitiesp. 115
Public Spacesp. 136
Cybercultures: New Formationsp. 157
Conclusionp. 173
Glossaryp. 183
Bibliographyp. 187
Indexp. 214
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