Cyberculture Theorists: Manuel Castells and Donna Haraway

ISBN-13: 9780415324311 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 164 str.

David Bell

Opis

This book surveys a cluster of works that seek to explore the cultures of cyberspace, the Internet and the information society. It introduces key ideas, and includes detailed discussion of the work of two key thinkers in this area, Manuel Castells and Donna Haraway, as well as outlining the development of cyberculture studies as a field. To do this, the book also explores selected moments in this development, from the early 1990s, when cyberspace and cyberculture were only just beginning to come together as ideas, up to the present day, when the field of cyberculture studies has grown and bloomed, producing innovative theoretical and empirical work from a diversity of standpoints. Key topics include:

• life on the screen
• network society
• space of flows
• cyborg methods.

Cyberculture Theorists is the ideal starting point for anyone wanting to understand how to theorise cyberculture in all its myriad forms."

Spis treści

Why Cyberculture?  Moments in Cyberculture  1. Cyberspace: First Steps  2. Life on the Screen  3. Internet Society  Why Castells?  Key Ideas  1. Network Society  2. Space of Flows  3. Real Virtuality  4. After Castells  Why Haraway?  Key ideas  1. Cyborg  2. Cyborg Invocations  3. Cyborg Methods  4. After Haraway.  After Cyberculture 

O autorze

David Bell