The New Media and Cybercultures Anthology

by Nayar, Pramod K.

• ISBN13: 9781405183079
• ISBN10: 1405183071
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-22
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

Introduction: New Media and Cybercultures

Reading Cyberculture

'Welcome to Cyberia: Notes on an Anthropology of Cyberculture'

'Web Sphere Analysis and Cybercultural Studies'

'The Promises of Monsters: A Regenerative Politics for Inappropriate/d Others'

'The Life Cycle of Cyborgs: Writing the Posthuman'

'Cyberspace, or the Virtualization of Communication'. levy

Digitextuality

'Digitextuality and Click Theory: Theses on Convergence Media in the Digital Age'

From The Language of New Media

From Remediation

Spaces

'Online U-Topia: Cyberspace and the Mythology of Placelessness'

'The End of Geography or the Explosion of Place? Conceptualizing Space, Place and Information Technology'

'Traditional Space vs Cyberspace: The Changing Role of Geography in Current International Politics'

'Virtual Webs, Physical Technologies, and Hidden Workers: The Spaces of Labor in Information Internetworks'

'Post-Sedentary Space'

Race and Cyberspace

'Cultural Considerations in Internet Policy and Design: A Case Study from Central Asia'

'Cybertyping and the Work of Race in the Age of Digital Reproduction'

'Alt.Civilizations.faq: Cyberspace as the Darker Side of the West'

'Voices of the Marginalized on the Internet: Examples from a Website for Women of South Asia'

Bodies

'Virtual Reality as Embodied Power of Imaging'

'Biocolonialism, Genomics, and the Databasing of the Population'

'Assembling Bodies in Cyberspace: Technologies, Bodies, and Sexual Difference'

'Will the Real Body Please Stand Up? Boundary Stories about Virtual Cultures'

Gender and Sexuality

'Virtually Visible: Female Cyberbodies and the Medical Imagination'

'Queer Spaces, Modem Boys and Pagan Statues: Gay/Lesbian Identity and the Construction of Cyberspace'

'Birth of the Cyberqueer'

'Analogy and (White) Feminist Theory: Thinking Race and the Color of the Cyborg Body'

Politics

'Language and Libertarianism: The Politics of Cyberculture and the Culture of Cyberpolitics'

'Simulated Sovereignty, Telematic Territoriality: The Political Economy of Cyberspace'

'The Green Internet: A Tool for Conservation Science'

'Avatopia: Planning a Community for Non-violent Societal Action'

'So Much for the Magic of Technology and the Free Market: The World Wide Web and the Corporate Media System'

'Cyborg Warriors'

'Ensuring Minority Rights in a Pluralistic and "Liquid"

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'The Right of Assembly and Freedom of Association in the Information Age'

'Internet Studies in Times of Terror'

Art and Aesthetics

'Aesthetic Programming: Crafting Personalized Software'

'The Interface as Sign and Aesthetic Event'

'The Digital Image in "the Age of the Signifier"'

Eduardo Kac 'The Emergence of Biotelematics and Biorobotics: Integrating Biology, Information Processing, Networking and Robotics'

'Dance and Media Technologies'

'Science as Culture: Through the Artist's Lens'

Subcultures

'(Not) Hackers: Subculture, Style and Media Incorporation'

'Langsters Online: k.d. lang and the Creation of Internet Fan Communities'

Everyday Life, Popular Internet

'Email, Gender and Personal Relationships'

'Where Home is the Office: The New Form of Flexible Work'

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"Nobody Lives Only in Cyberspace": Gendered Subjectivities and Domestic Use of the Internet'

'Sex on the Internet: Issues, Concerns and Implications'

Cyberspace Romance

Games

'How We Became Postdigital: From Cyberstudies to Game Studies'

'Hyperbodies, Hyperknowledge: Women in Games, Women in Cyberpunk, and Strategies of Resistance'

'Stories for Eye, Ear, and Muscles: Video Games, Media and Embodied Experiences'

'Playing Game Cultures: Electronic Games'. New media cultures

Governance and Law

From Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace

'Cyberspace Self-Governance: A Skeptical View from Liberal Democratic Theory'

The Governance of Cyberspace

Personal Communications Technology

'Moving Beyond Conspicuous Leisure Consumption: Adolescent Women, Mobile Phones and Public Space'

Morris Williams and Constance Fleuroit. '

"A New Sense of Place": Mobile "Wearable"

Information and Communications Technology Devices and the Geographies of Urban Childhood'

'Mobile Communication and the Transformation of Everyday Life: The Next Phase of Research on Mobiles'

'Mobile Mania, Mobile Manners'

'Speaking Mobile: Intensified Everyday Life, Condensed City'

'Supporting Personal and Romantic Relationships with Mobile Phones'

Bibliography and Webliography

Index

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