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kobvindex_HPB780425878
Format:
1 online resource (342 pages)
ISBN:
9780814708903
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0814708900
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9780814796047
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0814796044
Content:
Starting in the early 1990s, journalists and scholars began responding to and trying to take account of new technologies and their impact on our lives. By the end of the decade, the full-fledged study of cyberculture had arrived. Today, there exists a large body of critical work on the subject, with cutting-edge studies probing beyond the mere existence of virtual communities and online identities to examine the social, cultural, and economic relationships that take place online. Taking stock of the exciting work that is being done and positing what cyberculture's future might look like, Criti.
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Foreword; Introduction: Where is Internet Studies?; Part I: Fielding the Field; The Historiography of Cyberculture; Cultural Difference, Theory, and Cyberculture Studies; How We Became Postdigital; Internet Studies in Times of Terror; Catching the Waves; Cyberculture Studies; Part II: Critical Approaches and Methods; Finding the Quality in Qualitative Research; Web Sphere Analysis and Cybercultural Studies; Connecting the Selves; The Structural Problems of the Internet for Cultural Policy; Cultural Considerations in Internet Policy and Design; Bridging Cyberlife and Real Life.
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Overcoming Institutional MarginalizationThe Vertical (Layered) Net; The Construction of Cybersocial Reality; Part III: Cultural Difference in/and Cyberculture; E-scaping Boundaries; An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of Cybercultures; An Action Research (AR) Manifesto for Cyberculture Power to " Marginalized" Cultures of Difference; Cyberstudies and the Politics of Visibility; Disaggregation, Technology, and Masculinity; Gender, Technology, and Visual Cyberculture; Part IV: Critical Histories of the Recent Past; How Digital Technology Found Utopian Ideology; Government. com.
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Dot-Coms and Cyberculture StudiesAssociating Independents; About the Contributors; Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Silver, David. Critical Cyberculture Studies. New York : NYU Press, ©2006 ISBN 9780814740231
Language:
English
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NYU Press Open Square
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