Introduction to New Media and Cybercultures

This introduction to cybercultures provides a cutting-edge and much needed guide to the rapidly changing world of new media and communication.
* Considers cyberculture and new media through contemporary race, gender and sexuality studies and postcolonial theory
* Offers a clear analysis of some of the most complex issues in cybercultures, including identity, network societies, new geographies, and connectivity
* Includes discussions of gaming, social networking, geography, net-democracy, aesthetics, popular internet culture, the body, sexuality and politics
* Examines key questions in the political economy, racialization, gendering and governance of cyberculture

List of contents

Preface and Acknowledgments
 
1. "Reading" Cybercultures
 
2. Popular Cybercultures
 
3. Bodies
 
4. Subcultures
 
5. Gender and Sexualities
 
6. Public Spaces
 
7. Cybercultures: New Formations
 
Conclusion
 
Glossary
 
Bibliography
 
Index

About the author

Pramod K. Nayar teaches at the Department of English, University of Hyderabad, India. His most recent books include Virtual Worlds: Culture and Politics in the Age of Cybertechnology (2004), Reading Culture: Theory, Praxis, Politics (2006), An Introduction to Cultural Studies (2008), and Cybercultures: An Anthology (Wiley-Blackwell 2010).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Pk Nayar, Pramod K Nayar, Pramod K. Nayar, Pramod K. (University of Hyderabad Nayar, Nayar Pramod K.
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.01.2010
• EAN: 9781405181679
• ISBN: 978-1-4051-8167-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Data communication, networks; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Soziologie, Kultursoziologie, Kulturwissenschaften, Media Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Sociology of Culture, Medienforschung, Allg. Kulturwissenschaften, Communication & Media Studies, Kommunikation u. Medienforschung