Cyberculture theorists : Manuel Castells and Donna Haraway / David Bell.
Series: Routledge critical thinkers : essential guides for literary studiesPublisher: London : Routledge, 2007Description: xii, 160 p. ; 20 cm001: 42589ISBN: 9780415324311 (pbk.) :; 9780415324304 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Castells, Manuel, 1942- | Haraway, Donna Jeanne | Cyberspace -- Philosophy | Information technology -- Philosophy | Computers and ITDDC classification: 303.483 BEL LOC classification: HM851 | .B44 2007Summary: 'Cyberculture Theorists' is the ideal starting point for anyone wanting to understand how to theorise cyberculture in all its myriad forms. The text explores key topics such as life on the screen, network society, space of flows and Cyborg methods.| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.nbsp; Key topics include:
life on the screen network society space of flows cyborg methods.Cyberculture Theorists isnbsp;the ideal starting point for anyone wanting to understand how to theorise cyberculture in all its myriad forms.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 136-153) and index.
'Cyberculture Theorists' is the ideal starting point for anyone wanting to understand how to theorise cyberculture in all its myriad forms. The text explores key topics such as life on the screen, network society, space of flows and Cyborg methods.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Series editor's preface (p. ix)
- Acknowledgements (p. xiii)
- Why Cyberculture? (p. 1)
- Moments in Cyberculture (p. 15)
- 1 Cyberspace: first steps (p. 15)
- 2 Life on the screen (p. 27)
- 3 Internet society (p. 36)
- Why Castells? (p. 52)
- Castells' Key Ideas (p. 59)
- 1 Network society (p. 59)
- 2 Space of flows (p. 69)
- 3 Real virtuality (p. 77)
- After Castells (p. 88)
- Why Haraway? (p. 90)
- Haraway's Key Ideas (p. 95)
- 1 Cyborg (p. 95)
- 2 Cyborg invocations (p. 110)
- 3 Cyborg methods (p. 118)
- After Haraway (p. 129)
- After Cyberculture (p. 131)
- Further reading (p. 136)
- Other works cited (p. 149)
- Index (p. 154)
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