{"product_id":"an-introduction-to-new-media-and-cybercultures-isbn-9781405181662","title":"An Introduction to New Media and Cybercultures","description":"This introduction to cybercultures provides a cutting-edge and much needed guide to the rapidly changing world of new media and communication.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eConsiders cyberculture and new media through contemporary race, gender and sexuality studies and postcolonial theory\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers a clear analysis of some of the most complex issues in cybercultures, including identity, network societies, new geographies, and connectivity\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes discussions of gaming, social networking, geography, net-democracy, aesthetics, popular internet culture, the body, sexuality and politics\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines key questions in the political economy, racialization, gendering and governance of cyberculture\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments vi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 “Reading” Cybercultures 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Popular Cybercultures 30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Bodies 65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Subcultures 87\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Gender and Sexualities 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Public Spaces 136\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Cybercultures: New Formations 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 214\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003ePramod K. Nayar\u003c\/b\u003e teaches at the Department of English, University of Hyderabad, India. His most recent books include \u003ci\u003eVirtual Worlds: Culture and Politics in the Age of Cybertechnology\u003c\/i\u003e (2004), \u003ci\u003eReading\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCulture: Theory, Praxis, Politics\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), \u003ci\u003eAn Introduction to Cultural Studies\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), and \u003ci\u003eCybercultures: An Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e (Wiley-Blackwell 2010). \u003cp\u003eThis 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, \u003ci\u003eAn Introduction to New Media and Cybercultures\u003c\/i\u003e provides a timely and essential exploration of all aspects of today’s networked world.\u003c\/p\u003e \"Nayar's Introduction to Cyberculture pries open the issues that make cyberspace so fascinating: race, class, gender, space, the public, and the popular. This is essential reading for those curious about new media.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eDavid W. Park\u003c\/b\u003e, Lake Forest College, US \u003cp\u003e\"Nayar makes a scintillating, significant contribution to a new and burgeoning area of cultural studies in this acute yet lucid introduction to new medias and cybercultures. He both maps the field and makes you think.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eBrinda Bose\u003c\/b\u003e, New Delhi University, India\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"An accessible introduction to cybercultures that carefully balances a broad range of ideas and concepts while outlining their significance and impact on the digital world . . . a robustly global overview of the cybercultural landscape.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eTama Leaver\u003c\/b\u003e, Curtin University of Technology, Australia\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Nayar's approach to digital culture is determinedly postcolonial and firmly embedded in material conditions. This field of knowledge moves quickly, but clear summaries and definitions make this book both an invaluable introduction and an enduring point of reference.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eAlice Ferrebe\u003c\/b\u003e, Liverpool John Moores University, UK\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe New Media and Cybercultures Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e moves intelligently beyond the routinely anthologized voices of cyberculture's first wave to give us a rich and diverse tapestry of thinkers from the second--much needed update to a body of theory that struggles to keep up with the pace of the world it describes.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eMark Cooley\u003c\/b\u003e, George Mason University, US\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is the book for the changing face of the 21st century networked classroom. Revealing the up close and personal revolution wrought by globalization 2.0, Pramod K. Nayar's \u003ci\u003eNew Media and Cybercultures Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e introduces the gendered, spatialized, multimodal and mobile realities of social media, new technologies and hybrid cultures in a user-generated world.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eCarolyn Guertin\u003c\/i\u003e, eCreate Lab, University of Texas at Arlington, US\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This brilliantly edited collection skillfully weaves together the important conversations currently taking place in the broad field of cyberculture studies. This book is a vital read for students of all levels, scholars in digital media studies, and anyone interested in the changing cultural landscape of the digital age.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eJason Farman\u003c\/b\u003e, Washington State University, US\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Nayar's international assemblage of theoreticians provides a timely sourcebook for the study of new media and cyberculture within the context of cultural studies, and inspires deeper dialectical research into questions of power and identity.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eKirby Malone\u003c\/b\u003e, Co-author, \u003ci\u003eLive Movies: A Field Guide to New Media for the Performing Arts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988728168677,"sku":"NP9781405181662","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405181662.jpg?v=1761781355","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/an-introduction-to-new-media-and-cybercultures-isbn-9781405181662","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}