- Paperback: 800 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (10 Feb 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0415183790
- ISBN-13: 978-0415183796
- Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 17.3 x 4.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 502,991 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"I would whole-heartedly recommend The Cybercultures Reader as an undergraduate teaching text, or as an introduction to the field for newly-interested scholars. Aimee Morrison, University of Alberta."
"The Cybercultures Reader does exactly what I think a Reader should do: it provides a core text for cybercultural study...a complex and fascinating collection. Kate O'Riordan, University of Sussex."
"The Cybercultures Reader does exactly what I think a Reader should do: it provides a core text for cybercultural study...a complex and fascinating collection. Kate O'Riordan, University of Sussex."
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The Cybercultures Reader brings together key writings covering the whole spectrum of cyberspace and related new technologies to explore the ways in which new technologies are reshaping cultural forms and practices at the turn of the century. The reader is divided into thematic sections focussing on key issues such as subcultures in cyberspace, posthumanism and cyberbodies, and pop-cultural depictions of human-machine interaction. Key features include: each section features an introduction locating the essays in their theoretical and technological context; editor's introduction and accompanying user's guide; extensive bibliography Issues include: theoretical approaches to cyberculture; representations in fiction and on film; the development of distinct cyber-subcultures; feminist and queer approaches within cyberculture. Anne Balsamo, Michael Benedikt, Gareth Branwyn, Scott Bukatman, Lisa Cartwright, Susan Clerc, David B Downing, Arturo Escobar, Mike Featherstone, Jennifer Gonzalez, Donna Haraway, Alison Landsberg,
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THE MISSION OF THIS READER is to attempt to understand the ways in which cyberspace as a cultural phenomenon is currently being experienced and imagined. Read the first page
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THE MISSION OF THIS READER is to attempt to understand the ways in which cyberspace as a cultural phenomenon is currently being experienced and imagined. Read the first page
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6 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This reader is an excellent buy - giving a comprehensive overview of what is happening on the cyber-cult studs scene. It includes many classic texts such as Harraways cyborg manifesto. Each chapter has a useful introduction giving a broad overview of the issue at hand.
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Ignore the cliched title and access a wide variety of academic views
12 Jun 2010
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I fond some of this book cliched and tenditious. However by perservering and wading through the entire text revealed some gems, look in particular for aldous Huxley's formula for bad art!
A great resource and one that would be very useful for undergrads especially
A great resource and one that would be very useful for undergrads especially
17 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Didn't do much for me
2 Oct 2001
Format:Paperback
This seemed to be a collection of essays that don't quite go anywhere. Maybe for somebody it's good but for me it felt like mix of artists and cultural studies types who don't really get online with some people who spend too much time online in mud's and other virutal 'worlds'. It seem to lack any theortical or intellectual backbone. Aside from that, if you get a list of the essays most of them can be found online. ;)
2 of 41 people found the following review helpful
wow
11 Jan 2004
Format:Paperback
This is pretty impressive stuff...really. Aslo, the cover is nice.
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