Cyberculture

Author : Pierre Lévy
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0816636109

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Cyberculture by Pierre Lévy Pdf

Needing guidance and seeking insight, the Council of Europe approached Pierre Lévy, one of the world's most important and well-respected theorists of digital culture, for a report on the state (and, frankly, the nature) of cyberspace. The result is this extraordinary document, a perfectly lucid and accessible description of cyberspace-from infrastructure to practical applications-along with an inspired, far-reaching exploration of its ramifications. A window on the digital world for the technologically timid, the book also offers a brilliant vision of the philosophical and social realities and possibilities of cyberspace for the adept and novice alike. In an overview, Lévy discusses the distinguishing features of cyberspace and cyberculture from anthropological, philosophical, cultural, and sociological points of view. An optimist about the future potential of cyberspace, he eloquently argues that technology-and specifically the infrastructure of cyberspace, the Internet-can have a transformative effect on global society. Some of the issues he takes up are new art forms; changes in relationships to knowledge, education, and training; the preservation of linguistic and cultural differences; the emergence and implications of collective intelligence; the problems of social exclusion; and the impact of new technology on the city and democracy in general. In considerable detail, Lévy describes the ways in which cyberspace will help promote the growth of democracy, primarily through the participation of individuals or groups. His analysis is enlivened by his own personal impressions of cyberculture-garnered from bulletin boards, mailing lists, virtual reality demonstrations, andsimulations. Immediate in its details, visionary in its scope, deeply informed yet free of unnecessary technical language, Cyberculture is the book we require in our digital age. --Publisher.

Author : Francisco J. Ricardo
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789042025189

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Cyberculture and New Media by Francisco J. Ricardo Pdf

Formalisms of digital text / Francisco J. Ricardo -- Knowledge building and motivations in Wikipedia: participation as "Ba" / Sheizaf Rafaeli, Tsahi Hayat, Yaron Ariel -- On the way to the cyber-Arab-culture: international communication, telecommunications policies, and democracy / Mahmoud Eid -- The challenge of intercultural electronic learning: English as lingua franca / Rita Zaltsman -- The implicit body / Nicole Ridgway and Nathaniel Stern -- Cyborg goddesses: the mainframe revisited / Leman Giresunlu -- De-colonizing cyberspace: post-colonial strategies in cyberfiction / Maria Bäcke -- The différance engine: videogames as deconstructive spacetime / Tony Richards -- Technology on screen: projections, paranoia and discursive practice / Alev Adil and Steve Kennedy -- Desistant media / Seppo Kuivakari.

Author : Claire Taylor,Thea Pitman
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781846310614

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Latin American Cyberculture and Cyberliterature by Claire Taylor,Thea Pitman Pdf

This highly-innovative volume provides the first sustained academic focus on cyberliterature and cyberculture in Latin America, investigating the ways in which this form of cultural production is providing new configurations of subjects, narrative voices, and even political agency. Despite cyberculture’s spread throughout the Hispanic diaspora, much of the influence of this new discipline on Latin American culture remains undocumented. This timely volume focuses on the inclusivity of this new scholarship and provides extensive geographical coverage of topics as diverse as Chicano border writing and Brazilian and Argentine cybercultural phenomena.

Author : Fred Turner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226817439

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From Counterculture to Cyberculture by Fred Turner Pdf

In the early 1960s, computers haunted the American popular imagination. Bleak tools of the cold war, they embodied the rigid organization and mechanical conformity that made the military-industrial complex possible. But by the 1990s—and the dawn of the Internet—computers started to represent a very different kind of world: a collaborative and digital utopia modeled on the communal ideals of the hippies who so vehemently rebelled against the cold war establishment in the first place. From Counterculture to Cyberculture is the first book to explore this extraordinary and ironic transformation. Fred Turner here traces the previously untold story of a highly influential group of San Francisco Bay–area entrepreneurs: Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth network. Between 1968 and 1998, via such familiar venues as the National Book Award–winning Whole Earth Catalog, the computer conferencing system known as WELL, and, ultimately, the launch of the wildly successful Wired magazine, Brand and his colleagues brokered a long-running collaboration between San Francisco flower power and the emerging technological hub of Silicon Valley. Thanks to their vision, counterculturalists and technologists alike joined together to reimagine computers as tools for personal liberation, the building of virtual and decidedly alternative communities, and the exploration of bold new social frontiers. Shedding new light on how our networked culture came to be, this fascinating book reminds us that the distance between the Grateful Dead and Google, between Ken Kesey and the computer itself, is not as great as we might think.

Author : Darren Tofts,Annemarie Jonson,Alessio Cavallaro
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262701081

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Prefiguring Cyberculture by Darren Tofts,Annemarie Jonson,Alessio Cavallaro Pdf

Media critics and theorists, philosophers, and historians of science explore the antecedents of such aspects of contemporary technological culture as the Internet, the World Wide Web, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, virtual reality, and thecyborg.

Author : David Bell
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Computers and civilization
ISBN : 0415247543

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Cyberculture by David Bell Pdf

A wide-ranging and up-to-date overview of the fast-changing world of cyberculture.

Author : David Bell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006-12-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134346752

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Cyberculture Theorists by David Bell Pdf

Cyberculture Theorists is the ideal starting point for anyone wanting to understand how to theorise cyberculture in all its forms. It surveys a ‘cluster’ of works that explore the cultures of cyberspace, the Internet and the information society.

Author : Christopher L. McGahan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781135869847

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Racing Cyberculture by Christopher L. McGahan Pdf

Racing Cyberculture explores new media art that challenges the 'race-blind' myth of cyberspace. The particular cultural workers whose productions are addressed are the performance and installation artist Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Roberto Sifuentes, the UK new media arts collective Mongrel, the conceptual artists and composer Keith Obadike, and the multimedia artist Prema Murthy. The author looks at how works by these artists bring forward questions of racial and cultural identity as they intersect with information technology.

Author : David Silver,Adrienne Massanari
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780814740231

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Critical Cyberculture Studies by David Silver,Adrienne Massanari Pdf

This work indexes the literature of the German Early and High Middle Ages according to geographical location. Separate articles investigate the major literary centers - such as Fulda, Regensburg, and Braunschweig. The compilation illustrates both the regional concentrations and interconnections of the period, providing for the first time a compact reference work for regional literary historiography.

Author : Elsa Bouet
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848883369

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The (Un)Certain Future of Empathy in Posthumanism, Cyberculture and Science Fiction by Elsa Bouet Pdf

Author : Kehbuma Langmia
Publisher : Springer
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319475844

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Globalization and Cyberculture by Kehbuma Langmia Pdf

This book argues for hybridity of Western and African cultures within cybercultural and subcultural forms of communication. Kehbuma Langmia argues that when both Western and African cultures merge together through new forms of digital communication, marginalized populations in Africa are able to embrace communication, which could help in the socio-cultural and political development of the continent. On the other hand, the book also engages Richard McPhail’s Electronic Colonization Theory in order to demonstrate how developing areas such as Africa experience a new form of imperialistic subjugation because of electronic and digital communication. Globalization and Cyberculture illustrates how new forms of communication inculcate age-old traditional forms of communications into Africa’s cyberculture while complicating notions of identity, dependency, and the digital divide gap.

Author : Anna Maj
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848881785

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CyberCulture Now: Social and Communication Behaviours on the Web by Anna Maj Pdf

This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2013. At present cyberculture is a dominating cultural paradigm and nothing seems to be able to replace it. We globally share the same cyberspace but there is a question whether we all together–the whole humankind–are really living in the same cyberculture? This book proves that we rather tend to define the contemporary state of culture as cybercultures. The process of spreading technologies, trends and ideas is not the same in all parts of the world. The varying speeds of this process and cultural diversity of its forms are created by different social, political, economic and cultural contexts. By representing different perspectives the authors depict a wide spectrum of the most important current problems connected with networked life, global sharing of data, loss of privacy, new meanings of community and developments in narrative structures and social behaviours arising from new communication possibilities, instantaneity of information and global viral sensitivity.

Author : Atay, Simber,Kurubacak-Meriç, Gülsün,Sisman-U?ur, Serap
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-27
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781522580256

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Present and Future Paradigms of Cyberculture in the 21st Century by Atay, Simber,Kurubacak-Meriç, Gülsün,Sisman-U?ur, Serap Pdf

Cyberculture is a particularly complex issue. It is seen as a fantastic meeting point of classic philosophers with postmodern theorists, politicians with community engineers, contemporary sophists with software engineers, and artists with rhetoricians. Today, cyberculture is identified highly with new media and digital rhetoric and could be used to create a comprehensive map of modern culture. Present and Future Paradigms of Cyberculture in the 21st Century is a comprehensive research publication that explores the influence of the internet and internet culture on society as a whole. Highlighting a wide range of topics such as digital media, activism, and psychology, this book is ideal for academicians, researchers, sociologists, psychologists, anthropologists, and students.

Author : Pramod K. Nayar
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781405183086

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The New Media and Cybercultures Anthology by Pramod K. Nayar Pdf

Moving beyond traditional cyberculture studies paradigms in several key ways, this comprehensive collection marks the increasing convergence of cyberculture with other forms of media, and with all aspects of our lives in a digitized world. Includes 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 Incorporates essays by both new and established scholars of digital cultures, including Andy Miah, Eugene Thacker, Lisa Nakamura, Chris Hables Gray, Sonia Livingstone and Espen Aarseth Created explicitly for the undergraduate student, with comprehensive introductions to each section that outline the main ideas of each essay Explores the many facets of cyberculture, and includes sections on race, politics, gender, theory, gaming, and space The perfect companion to Nayar's Introduction to New Media and Cyberculture

Author : David J. Bell,Brian D Loader,Nicholas Pleace,Douglas Schuler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134539048

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Cyberculture: The Key Concepts by David J. Bell,Brian D Loader,Nicholas Pleace,Douglas Schuler Pdf

Fully cross-referenced and with suggestions for further reading, this is the only A-Z guide available on this subject, this book provides a wide-ranging, up-to-date overview of the fast-changing and important world of cyberculture.