An Introduction to New Media and Cybercultures

Kurzbeschreibung

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.