An Introduction to New Media and Cybercultures

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4051-8166-2
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 173 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 393 g

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nayar, Pramod K

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medien & Gesellschaft, Medienwirkungsforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Digitale Medien, Internet, Telekommunikation
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Massenmedien & Massenkommunikation
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).