The Cybergypsies

Author : Indra Sinha
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781471152924

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THE CYBERGYPSIES describes one man's exploration of cyberspace over many years and the folk he meets on the Net, the cybergypsies: virus writers, hackers, witches, sex-peddlars, conmen, net vamps, randy paratroopers posing as girls; the A-bomb blueprints he was offered for sale. He recounts with startling honesty how he nearly lost everything because of his obsession with the Net and how the Net can be as dangerous and destructive as any drug addiction. However, the author also shows how the Internet can be used for positive aims, as he describes how he fought for human rights with desperate appeals for the Kurdish refugees in the wake of the Gulf War and justice for Bhopal's gas victims in campaigns involving Jeffrey Archer and Don McCullin.

Author : Indra Sinha
Publisher : Simon & Schuster UK
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 141652598X

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The Cybergypsies by Indra Sinha Pdf

THE CYBERGYPSIES describes one man's exploration of cyberspace over many years and the folk he meets on the Net, the cybergypsies: virus writers, hackers, witches, sex-peddlars, conmen, net vamps, randy paratroopers posing as girls; the A-bomb blueprints he was offered for sale. He recounts with startling honesty how he nearly lost everything because of his obsession with the Net and how the Net can be as dangerous and destructive as any drug addiction. However, the author also shows how the Internet can be used for positive aims, as he describes how he fought for human rights with desperate appeals for the Kurdish refugees in the wake of the Gulf War and justice for Bhopal's gas victims in campaigns involving Jeffrey Archer and Don McCullin.

Author : Philip Leonard
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441105783

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Literature After Globalization by Philip Leonard Pdf

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014 Literature after Globalization offers a detailed study of recent literary and theoretical responses to technology, globalization, and national identity. Focusing on texts of the the 1990s and 2000s, particularly novels and other writing by Mark Danielewski, Hari Kunzru, Indra Sinha, and Neal Stephenson, it charts a departure from narratives of globalization which declare the collapse of national cultures, and it considers how national sovereignty has been reinvented and reasserted in the face of technology's transnational effects. Drawing upon recent theoretical responses to technology and culture (including work by Yochai Benkler, Manuel Castells, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, N. Katherine Hayles, Paul Virilio, and McKenzie Wark) this book will explore how, in these novels, the notion of an inclusive globalization has been replaced by a sense of national globalism.

Author : Graham Murphy,Lars Schmeink
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351665155

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Cyberpunk and Visual Culture by Graham Murphy,Lars Schmeink Pdf

Within the expansive mediascape of the 1980s and 1990s, cyberpunk’s aesthetics took firm root, relying heavily on visual motifs for its near-future splendor saturated in media technologies, both real and fictitious. As today’s realities look increasingly like the futures forecast in science fiction, cyberpunk speaks to our contemporary moment and as a cultural formation dominates our 21st century techno-digital landscapes. The 15 essays gathered in this volume engage the social and cultural changes that define and address the visual language and aesthetic repertoire of cyberpunk – from cybernetic organisms to light, energy, and data flows, from video screens to cityscapes, from the vibrant energy of today’s video games to the visual hues of comic book panels, and more. Cyberpunk and Visual Culture provides critical analysis, close readings, and aesthetic interpretations of exactly those visual elements that define cyberpunk today, moving beyond the limitations of merely printed text to also focus on the meaningfulness of images, forms, and compositions that are the heart and lifeblood of cyberpunk graphic novels, films, television shows, and video games.

Author : Ralph Schroeder
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781447102779

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The Social Life of Avatars by Ralph Schroeder Pdf

Virtual reality (VR) technology has been developed commercially since the early 1990s [1]. Yet it is only with the growth of the Internet and other high-bandwidth links that VR systems have increasingly become networked to allow users to share the same virtual environment (VE). Shared YEs raise a number of interesting questions: what is the difference between face-to-face interaction and interaction between persons inside YEs? How does the appearance of the "avatar" - as the graphical representation of the user has become known - change the nature of interaction? And what governs the formation of virtual communities? This volume brings together contributions from social scientists and computer scientists who have conducted research on social interaction in various types of YEs. Two previous volumes in this CSCW book series [2, 3] have examined related aspects of research on YEs - social navigation and collaboration - although they do not always deal with VRIVEs in the sense that it is used here (see the definition in Chapter 1). The aim of this volume is to explore how people interact with each other in computer-generated virtual worlds.

Author : Richard A. Bartle
Publisher : New Riders
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0131018167

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Designing Virtual Worlds by Richard A. Bartle Pdf

This text provides a comprehensive treatment of virtual world design from one of its pioneers. It covers everything from MUDs to MOOs to MMORPGs, from text-based to graphical VWs.

Author : Nanette Gottlieb,Mark McLelland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134467631

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Japanese Cybercultures by Nanette Gottlieb,Mark McLelland Pdf

Japan is rightly regarded as one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world, yet the development and deployment of Internet technology in Japan has taken a different trajectory compared with Western nations. This is the first book to look at the specific dynamics of Japanese Internet use. It examines the crucial questions: * how the Japanese are using the Internet: from the prevalence of access via portable devices, to the fashion culture of mobile phones * how Japan's "cute culture" has colonized cyberspace * the role of the Internet in different musical subcultures * how different men's and women's groups have embraced technology to highlight problems of harassment and bullying * the social, cultural and political impacts of the Internet on Japanese society * how marginalized groups in Japanese society - gay men, those living with AIDS, members of new religious groups and Japan's hereditary sub-caste, the Burakumin - are challenging the mainstream by using the Internet. Examined from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, using a broad range of case-studies, this is an exciting and genuinely cutting-edge book which breaks new ground in Japanese studies and will be of value to anyone interested in Japanese culture, the Internet and cyberculture.

Author : Simon During
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 0415246563

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Cultural Studies by Simon During Pdf

An ideal introduction, explaining the history and key concerns of cultural studies

Author : Nick Hubble,Philip Tew,Leigh Wilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474242417

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The 1990s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction by Nick Hubble,Philip Tew,Leigh Wilson Pdf

How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1990s shape contemporary British Fiction? From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the turn of the millennium, the 1990s witnessed a realignment of global politics. Against the changing international scene, this volume uses events abroad and in Britain to examine and explain the changes taking place in British fiction, including: the celebration of national identities, fuelled by the move toward political devolution in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales; the literary optimism in urban ethnic fictions written by a new generation of authors, born and raised in Britain; the popularity of neo-Victorian fiction. Critical surveys are balanced by in-depth readings of work by the authors who defined the decade, including A.S. Byatt, Hanif Kureishi, Will Self, Caryl Phillips and Irvine Welsh: an approach that illustrates exactly how their key themes and concerns fit within the social and political circumstances of the decade.

Author : Michael J. Tresca
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780786460090

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The Evolution of Fantasy Role-Playing Games by Michael J. Tresca Pdf

Tracing the evolution of fantasy gaming from its origins in tabletop war and collectible card games to contemporary web-based live action and massive multi-player games, this book examines the archetypes and concepts within the fantasy gaming genre alongside the roles and functions of the game players themselves. Other topics include: how The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings helped shape fantasy gaming through Tolkien’s obsessive attention to detail and virtual world building; the community-based fellowship embraced by players of both play-by-post and persistent browser-based games, despite the fact that these games are fundamentally solo experiences; the origins of gamebooks and interactive fiction; and the evolution of online gaming in terms of technological capabilities, media richness, narrative structure, coding authority, and participant roles.

Author : Johannes Fromme,Alexander Unger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789400727779

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Computer Games and New Media Cultures by Johannes Fromme,Alexander Unger Pdf

Digital gaming is today a significant economic phenomenon as well as being an intrinsic part of a convergent media culture in postmodern societies. Its ubiquity, as well as the sheer volume of hours young people spend gaming, should make it ripe for urgent academic enquiry, yet the subject was a research backwater until the turn of the millennium. Even today, as tens of millions of young people spend their waking hours manipulating avatars and gaming characters on computer screens, the subject is still treated with scepticism in some academic circles. This handbook aims to reflect the relevance and value of studying digital games, now the subject of a growing number of studies, surveys, conferences and publications. As an overview of the current state of research into digital gaming, the 42 papers included in this handbook focus on the social and cultural relevance of gaming. In doing so, they provide an alternative perspective to one-dimensional studies of gaming, whose agendas do not include cultural factors. The contributions, which range from theoretical approaches to empirical studies, cover various topics including analyses of games themselves, the player-game interaction, and the social context of gaming. In addition, the educational aspects of games and gaming are treated in a discrete section. With material on non-commercial gaming trends such as ‘modding’, and a multinational group of authors from eleven nations, the handbook is a vital publication demonstrating that new media cultures are far more complex and diverse than commonly assumed in a debate dominated by concerns over violent content.

Author : Susanna Paasonen
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Computers and women
ISBN : 0820476072

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Figures of Fantasy by Susanna Paasonen Pdf

Figures of Fantasy explores the popularization of the idea of the Internet as a «cyberspace» and considers the implications this has for discussions of gender and identity. The book analyzes the standard figures used to conceptualize and explain technology and gender, and traces the ways in which these concepts have served to create the figure of the Internet as a cyberspace - a manner of thinking that has come to dominate Internet research internationally, making visible its historicity, limitations, and implications. Figures of Fantasy offers an innovative theoretical approach to Internet research, and provides a highly original, systematic critique of the canonical works in the field.

Author : Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 1765 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781522579106

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Multigenerational Online Behavior and Media Use: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications by Management Association, Information Resources Pdf

The rapid evolution of technology continuously changes the way people interact, work, and learn. By examining these advances from a sociological perspective, researchers can further understand the impact of cyberspace on human behavior, interaction, and cognition. Multigenerational Online Behavior and Media Use: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a vital reference source covering the impact of social networking platforms on a variety of relationships, including those between individuals, governments, citizens, businesses, and consumers. The publication also highlights the negative behavioral, physical, and mental effects of increased online usage and screen time such as mental health issues, internet addiction, and body image. Showcasing a range of topics including online dating, smartphone dependency, and cyberbullying, this multi-volume book is ideally designed for sociologists, psychologists, computer scientists, engineers, communication specialists, academicians, researchers, and graduate-level students seeking current research on media usage and its behavioral effects.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Sixthsense Publications
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Author : D&AD
Publisher : Taschen
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783836537025

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D&AD. The Copy Book by D&AD Pdf