Virtual Weaponry: The Militarized Internet in Hollywood War Films

ISBN-13: 9783319868035 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 250 str.

Aaron Tucker

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction: Virtual Weaponry

Chapter 2: The Hard Technological Body in the Exoskeletal Soldier

Chapter 3: The Soldier Interfaces on the Digitally Augmented Battlefield

Chapter 4: War Films, Combat Simulators and The Absent Virtual Soldier

Chapter 5: Ender’s War Games: Drones, Data and the Simulation of War as Weapon and Tactic

Chapter 6: The Civilian Soldiers of Cyberwarfare

O autorze

Aaron Tucker is author of Interfacing with the Internet in Popular Cinema along with the poetry collections punchlines and irresponsible mediums: the chesspoems of Marcel Duchamp. His current collaborative project, Loss Sets, translates poems into sculptures which are then 3D printed; he is also the co-creator of The ChessBard, an app that transforms chess games into poems (chesspoetry.com). He is currently a lecturer in the English Department and a Research Fellow with the Centre for Digital Humanities at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada.