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Book Navigating Cybercultures

Download or read book Navigating Cybercultures written by Nicholas van Orden and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers collected here address the questions about posthumanism, hybridity, humanity, subjectivity, and aesthetics that echo through all of our daily attempts to navigate our rapidly shifting cybercultures.

Book The Real and the Virtual  Critical Issues in Cybercultures

Download or read book The Real and the Virtual Critical Issues in Cybercultures written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume reflect the debates that progressed during the 4th Global conference on Cybercultures: Exploring Critical Issues, held as a part of Cyber Hub activity in Salzburg, Austria in March 2009. The edited draft papers make up a snapshot for the actual publishing.

Book An Introduction to New Media and Cybercultures

Download or read book An Introduction to New Media and Cybercultures written by Pramod K. Nayar and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-01-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Book An Introduction to Cybercultures

Download or read book An Introduction to Cybercultures written by David Bell and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cybercultures from the East

Download or read book Cybercultures from the East written by An Nguyen and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cyberculture

Download or read book Cyberculture written by Pierre Lévy and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Needing guidance and seeking insight, the Council of Europe approached Pierre Lévy, one of the world's most important and well-respected theorists of digital culture, for a report on the state (and, frankly, the nature) of cyberspace. The result is this extraordinary document, a perfectly lucid and accessible description of cyberspace-from infrastructure to practical applications-along with an inspired, far-reaching exploration of its ramifications. A window on the digital world for the technologically timid, the book also offers a brilliant vision of the philosophical and social realities and possibilities of cyberspace for the adept and novice alike. In an overview, Lévy discusses the distinguishing features of cyberspace and cyberculture from anthropological, philosophical, cultural, and sociological points of view. An optimist about the future potential of cyberspace, he eloquently argues that technology-and specifically the infrastructure of cyberspace, the Internet-can have a transformative effect on global society. Some of the issues he takes up are new art forms; changes in relationships to knowledge, education, and training; the preservation of linguistic and cultural differences; the emergence and implications of collective intelligence; the problems of social exclusion; and the impact of new technology on the city and democracy in general. In considerable detail, Lévy describes the ways in which cyberspace will help promote the growth of democracy, primarily through the participation of individuals or groups. His analysis is enlivened by his own personal impressions of cyberculture-garnered from bulletin boards, mailing lists, virtual reality demonstrations, andsimulations. Immediate in its details, visionary in its scope, deeply informed yet free of unnecessary technical language, Cyberculture is the book we require in our digital age. --Publisher.

Book The Cybercultures Reader

Download or read book The Cybercultures Reader written by David Bell and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cybercultures

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  • Publisher : Brill
  • Release : 2012-01-01
  • ISBN : 9401208530
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Cybercultures written by and published by Brill. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cybercultures: Mediations of Community, Culture, Politics, is a collection of essays that critically examine the role that digital media and online cultures play in the rearticulation of contemporary societies, cultures and polities. This volume interrogates the nature and effects of the existence of cybercultures in the world of Web 2.0, new media and media convergence, and mobile digital networks. It does so by examining the effect of cybercultures upon the contemporary articulation of phenomena as diverse as bodily experience, memory, the imagination, history, political participation, the nature of community, artistic creativity, and the instability of rhetoric, language and meaning.

Book The New Media and Cybercultures Anthology

Download or read book The New Media and Cybercultures Anthology written by Pramod K. Nayar and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-04-26 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Book Cyberculture and New Media

Download or read book Cyberculture and New Media written by Francisco J. Ricardo and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formalisms of digital text / Francisco J. Ricardo -- Knowledge building and motivations in Wikipedia: participation as "Ba" / Sheizaf Rafaeli, Tsahi Hayat, Yaron Ariel -- On the way to the cyber-Arab-culture: international communication, telecommunications policies, and democracy / Mahmoud Eid -- The challenge of intercultural electronic learning: English as lingua franca / Rita Zaltsman -- The implicit body / Nicole Ridgway and Nathaniel Stern -- Cyborg goddesses: the mainframe revisited / Leman Giresunlu -- De-colonizing cyberspace: post-colonial strategies in cyberfiction / Maria Bäcke -- The différance engine: videogames as deconstructive spacetime / Tony Richards -- Technology on screen: projections, paranoia and discursive practice / Alev Adil and Steve Kennedy -- Desistant media / Seppo Kuivakari.

Book Cybercultures from the East

Download or read book Cybercultures from the East written by An Nguyen and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chinese Stardom in Participatory Cyberculture

Download or read book Chinese Stardom in Participatory Cyberculture written by Dorothy Wai Sim Lau and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machine generated contents note:1.Blogging Donnie Yen: remaking the martial arts body as a cyber-intertext --2.`Flickering' Jackie Chan: the actor-ambassadorial persona on photo-sharing sites --3.`Friending' Jet Li on Facebook: the celebrity-philanthropist persona in online social networks --4.YouTubing Zhang Ziyi: Chinese female stardom in fan videos on video-sharing sites --5.Discussing Takeshi Kaneshiro: the pan-Asian star image on fan forums.

Book Cyberculture  The Key Concepts

Download or read book Cyberculture The Key Concepts written by David J. Bell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-07-31 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully cross-referenced and with suggestions for further reading, this is the only A-Z guide available on this subject, this book provides a wide-ranging, up-to-date overview of the fast-changing and important world of cyberculture.

Book Connected Minds  Emerging Cultures

Download or read book Connected Minds Emerging Cultures written by Steve Wheeler and published by IAP. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the title indicates, this book highlights the shifting and emergent features that represent life online, specifically in and around the territory of e-learning. Cybercultures in themselves are complex conglomerations of ideas, philosophies, concepts, and theories, some of which are fiercely contradictory. As a construct, "cyberculture" is a result of sustained attempts by diverse groups of people to make sense of multifarious activities, linguistic codes, and practices in complicated and ever-changing settings. It is an impossibly convoluted field. Any valid understanding of cyberculture can only be gained from living within it, and as Bell suggests, it is "made up of people, machines and stories in everyday life." Although this book contains a mix of perspectives, as the chapters progress, readers should detect some common threads. Technology-mediated activities are featured throughout, each evoking its particular cultural nuances and, as Derrick de Kerckhove (1997) has eloquently argued, technology acts as the skin of culture. All the authors are passionate about their subjects, every one engages critically with his or her topics, and each is fully committed to the belief that e-learning is a vitally important component in the future of education. All of the authors believe that digital learning environments will contribute massively to the success of the information society we now inhabit. Each is intent on exploration of the touchstone of "any time, any place" learning where temporal and spatial contexts cease to become barriers to learning, and where the boundaries are blurring between the formal and informal. This book is divided into four sections. In Part I, which has been titled "Digital Subcultures," we begin an exploration of “culture” and attempt to locate the learner within a number of digital subcultures that have arisen around new and emerging technologies such as mobile and handheld devices, collaborative online spaces, and podcasting. The chapters in this section represent attempts by the authors to demonstrate that there are many subdivisions present on the Web, and that online learners cannot and should not be represented as one vast amorphous mass of "Internet" users.

Book Cyberculture Counterconspiracy

Download or read book Cyberculture Counterconspiracy written by Kenn Thomas and published by Book Tree. This book was released on 1999 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most notorious conspiracy-minded zine, Steamshovel Press, presents what the conspiracy doesnt want the readers to have: Information. Both volumes contain powerful conspiratorial undercurrents from recent times and past history. Includes internet links to help involve the readers in the counterconspiracy. The New Yorker calls it on the cutting edgeand a strange place that is. Volume One includes Reich and Little Rock, Cord Meyer, book reviews, Gloria Steinem, bugs and bombs, Curtis Lemay, Jenny Randles, Iron Mountain, JFK, Lobster, Monicagate, Starbucks murders, right-wing conspiracy, Octopus, Crewes, Ginsberg, Liskers Birthday, Dr. John, Kerry Thornley, and more.

Book CyberCulture Now  Social and Communication Behaviours on the Web

Download or read book CyberCulture Now Social and Communication Behaviours on the Web written by Anna Maj and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2013. At present cyberculture is a dominating cultural paradigm and nothing seems to be able to replace it. We globally share the same cyberspace but there is a question whether we all together–the whole humankind–are really living in the same cyberculture? This book proves that we rather tend to define the contemporary state of culture as cybercultures. The process of spreading technologies, trends and ideas is not the same in all parts of the world. The varying speeds of this process and cultural diversity of its forms are created by different social, political, economic and cultural contexts. By representing different perspectives the authors depict a wide spectrum of the most important current problems connected with networked life, global sharing of data, loss of privacy, new meanings of community and developments in narrative structures and social behaviours arising from new communication possibilities, instantaneity of information and global viral sensitivity.

Book The Friendly Orange Glow

Download or read book The Friendly Orange Glow written by Brian Dear and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when Steve Jobs was only a teenager and Mark Zuckerberg wasn’t even born, a group of visionary engineers and designers—some of them only high school students—in the late 1960s and 1970s created a computer system called PLATO, which was light-years ahead in experimenting with how people would learn, engage, communicate, and play through connected computers. Not only did PLATO engineers make significant hardware breakthroughs with plasma displays and touch screens but PLATO programmers also came up with a long list of software innovations: chat rooms, instant messaging, message boards, screen savers, multiplayer games, online newspapers, interactive fiction, and emoticons. Together, the PLATO community pioneered what we now collectively engage in as cyberculture. They were among the first to identify and also realize the potential and scope of the social interconnectivity of computers, well before the creation of the internet. PLATO was the foundational model for every online community that was to follow in its footsteps. The Friendly Orange Glow is the first history to recount in fascinating detail the remarkable accomplishments and inspiring personal stories of the PLATO community. The addictive nature of PLATO both ruined many a college career and launched pathbreaking multimillion-dollar software products. Its development, impact, and eventual disappearance provides an instructive case study of technological innovation and disruption, project management, and missed opportunities. Above all, The Friendly Orange Glow at last reveals new perspectives on the origins of social computing and our internet-infatuated world.