The new media and cybercultures anthology /

" ... 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 divers...

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Other Authors: Nayar, Pramod K.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
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Table of 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.