An Introduction to New Media and Cybercultures

ISBN-13: 9781405181679 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 224 str.

Pramod K. Nayar

Opis

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

Spis treści

Preface and Acknowledgments vi

1 Reading Cybercultures 1

2 Popular Cybercultures 30

3 Bodies 65

4 Subcultures 87

5 Gender and Sexualities 115

6 Public Spaces 136

7 Cybercultures: New Formations 157

Conclusion 173

Glossary 183

Bibliography 187

Index 214

O autorze

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).

Blurb

This introduction to cybercultures provides a cutting–edge and much–needed guide to the rapidly changing world of new media and communication. Exploring for the first time the role that race, gender, sexuality, and postcoloniality play in the digital environment, Pramod Nayar demonstrates how these subject positions shape identities, communities, and networks in the same powerful manner that they do in the material world. From gaming, net democracy and connectivity, to theories of digitextuality, metamedia, and social networking, An Introduction to New Media and Cybercultures  provides a timely and essential exploration of all aspects of today s networked world.