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The new media and cybercultures anthology / edited by Pramod K. Nayar.

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The new media and cybercultures anthology / edited by Pramod K. Nayar.
Publication
Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

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Nayar, Pramod K.
Description
xv, 545 p.; 25 cm.
Summary
" ... Collects 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. Created for the undergraduate, this wide-ranging and diverse collection explores the many facets of cyberculture, and includes sections on race, politics, gender, theory, gaming, and space."--Publisher.
Subject
  • Cyberspace > Social aspects
  • Digital media > Social aspects
  • Information society
  • Social interaction
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • pt. I. Web sphere analysis and cybercultural studies / Kirsten Foot -- What does it mean to be posthuman / N. Katherine Hayles -- Digitextuality and click theory: theses on convergence media in the digital age / Anna Everett -- The double logic of remediation / Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin -- The database / Lev Manovich -- Making meaning of mobiles: a theory of apparatgeist / James E. Katz and Mark A. Aakhus -- pt. II. Post-sedentary space / William J. Mitchell -- the end of geography or the explosion of place: conceptualizing space, place and information technology / Stephen Graham -- Asphalt games: enacting place through locative media / Michele Chang and Elizabeth Goodman -- Thought on the convergence of digital media memory and social and urban spaces / Federico Casalegno -- pt. III. Cybertyping and the work of race in the age of digital reproduction / Lisa Nakamura -- Thinking through the diaspora: call centers, India and the new politics of hybridity / Raka Shome -- Voices of the marginalized on the internet: Examples from a website for women of South Asia / Ananda Mitra -- pt. IV. Hypes, hopes and actualities: new digital cartesianism and bodies in cyberspace / Megan Boler -- The bioethics of cybermedicalization / Andy Miah and Emma Rich -- Biocolonialism, genomics and the databasing of the population / Eugene Thacker.
  • pt. V. Assembling bodies in cyberspace: technologies, bodies, and sexual difference / Dianne Currier -- Lesbians in (cyber)space: the politics of the internet in Latin American on- and off-line communities / Elisabeth Jay Friedman -- E-Rogenous zones: positioning pornography in the digital economy / Blaise Cronin and Elisabeth Davenport -- Race, gender and sex on the net: semantic networks of selling and storytelling sex tourism / Peter A. Chow-White -- pt. VI. Internet studies in times of terror / David Silver and Alice Marwick -- Free labor: producing culture for the digital economy / Tiziana Terranova -- Ensuring minority rights in a pluralistic and liquid information society / Birgitte Kofod Olsen -- Hacktivism: all together in the virtual / Tim Jordan -- pt. VII. Games telling stories: a brief note on games and narratives / Jesper Juul -- WoW is the new MUD: social gaming from text to video / Torill Elvira Mortensen -- Women and games: technologies of the gendered self / Pam Royse, Joon Lee, Baasanjav Undrahbuyan, Mark Hopson, and Mia Consalvo -- To the white extreme: conquering athletic space, White manhood, and racing virtual reality / David J. Leonard -- Your second life: goodwill and the performativity of intellectual property in online digital gaming / Andrew Herman, Rosemary J. Coombe, and Lewis Kaye -- pt. VIII. Taking risky opportunities in youthful content creation: teenagers use of social networking sites for intimacy, privacy and self expression / Sonia Livingstone -- Dynamics of internet dating / Helene M. Lawson and Kira Leck -- Screening moments, scrolling lives: diary writing on the web / Madeleine Sorapure -- Your life in snapshots: mobile weblogs / Nicola Doring and Axel Gundolf -- Assembling portable talk and mobile worlds: sound technologies and mobile social networks / John Farnsworth and Terry Austrin -- New media, networking and phatic culture / Vincent Miller.
ISBN
  • 9781405183086 (alk. paper)
  • 140518308X (alk. paper)
  • 9781405183079 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1405183071 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2010004717
OCLC
  • 466334003
  • SCSB-11878525
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library