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Zusatztext 'The volume's structure provides an excellent approach to the diverse nature of the fields of study ' - Convergence'This will prove an invaluable resource for students' - International Journal of Cultural Studies Informationen zum Autor David Bell is senior lecturer in Critical Human Geography and leader of the Urban Cultures & Consumption research cluster at the University of Leeds. His previous publications include An Introduction to Cybercultures (2001) and Cyberculture Theorists: Manuel Castells & Donna Haraway (2006)Barbara Kennedy is Reader in Film! Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Staffordshire. Her previous publications include Deleuze and Cinema: The Aesthetics of Sensation (2000)! The Cybercultures Reader with David Bell (2000) and a variety of articles in journals on feminist film theory! philosophy! dance! choreography and cultural studies. Klappentext This updated and thoroughly revised second edition of the best-selling The Cybercultures Reader! includes specially selected contemporary articles by key thinkers in the expanding field of cybercultures studies. With general and thematic section introductions! a full bibliography and user guide! this latest edition is an indispensable resource for all those interested in living with and thinking about new technologies. Zusammenfassung This new, updated, and thoroughly revised edition of the successful The Cybercultures Reader includes a host of contemporary articles following this emerging and developing field. Inhaltsverzeichnis Cybercultures RewriterDavid Bell Part One: Approaching Cyberculture IntroductionDavid Bell 1. Cyberspace: First StepsMichael Benedikt 2. A Cyborg Manifesto: Science! Technology! and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth CenturyDonna Haraway 3. Space for Rent in the Last SuburbScott McQuire 4. CyberspaceScott Bukatman 5. Red Alert in Cyberspace!Paul Virilio Part Two: Popular Cybercultures IntroductionBarbara Kennedy 6. From Captain America to Wolverine: Cyborgs in Comic Books - Alternative Images of Cybernetic Heroes and VillainsMark Oelhert 7. The Technophilic Body: On Technicity in William Gibson's Cyborg CultureDavid Tomas 8. Deai-kei: Japan's New Culture of EncounterTodd Holden & Takako Tsuruki 9. Mapping the Bit Girl: Lara Croft and New Media FandomBob Rehak 10. From DV Realism to a Universal Recording MachineLev Manovich Part Three: Cybercommunities IntroductionDavid Bell 11. Electronic Homesteading on the Rural Frontier: Big Sky Telegraph and its CommunityWillard Ucapher 12. Community in the Abstract:A Political and Ethical Dilemma?Michele Willson 13. Against Virtual Community: For a Politics of DistanceKevin Robins 14. Virtual Togetherness: An Everyday-Life PerspectiveMaria Bakardjieva 15. Webs as PegsDavid Bell Part Four: Cyberidentities IntroductionDavid Bell 16. Identity Construction and Self-Presentation on Personal Homepages: Emancipatory Potentials and Reality ConstraintsCharles Cheung 17. Prosthetic Memory: Total Recall and Blade RunnerAlison Landsberg 18. Race in/for Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the InternetLisa Nakamura 19. Cyberpublics and Diaspora Politics among Transnational ChineseAihwa Ong 20. Promiscuous FictionsTyler Curtain Part Five: Cyberfeminisms IntroductionBarbara Kennedy 21. On the Matrix: Cyberfeminist SimulationsSadie Plant 22. New Sciences: Cyborg Feminism and the Methodology of the OppressedChela Sandoval 23. Cyberquake: Haraway's ManifestoZoe Sofoulis 24. Feminist AI and CyberfuturesAlison Adam Part Six: Cyberbodies IntroductionBarbara Kennedy 25. The Embodied Computer/UserDeborah Lupton 26. Will the Real Body Please Stand Up? Boundary Stories about Virtual CulturesAlluquere Rosanne Stone 27. From Psycho-Body to Cyber-Systems: Images as Post-Human EntitiesStelarc 28. Serene and Happy and Distant: An Interview with OrlanRobert Ayers 29. Revenants: The Digital UncannyCatheri...
