{"product_id":"the-new-media-and-cybercultures-anthology-isbn-9781405183086","title":"The New Media and Cybercultures Anthology","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMoving beyond traditional cyberculture studies paradigms in several key ways, this comprehensive collection marks the increasing convergence of cyberculture with other forms of media, and with all aspects of our lives in a digitized world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes essential readings for both the student and scholar of a diverse range of fields, including new and digital media, internet studies, digital arts and culture studies, network culture studies, and the information society\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncorporates essays by both new and established scholars of digital cultures, including Andy Miah, Eugene Thacker, Lisa Nakamura, Chris Hables Gray, Sonia Livingstone and Espen Aarseth\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCreated explicitly for the undergraduate student, with comprehensive introductions to each section that outline the main ideas of each essay\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores the many facets of cyberculture, and includes sections on race, politics, gender, theory, gaming, and space\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe perfect companion to Nayar's \u003ci\u003eIntroduction to New Media and Cyberculture\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments to Sources xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART ONE THEORIES, POETICS, PRACTICES 7\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Web Sphere Analysis and Cybercultural Studies 11\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirsten Foot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 What Does it Mean to be Posthuman? 19\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eN. Katherine Hayles\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Digitextuality and Click Theory: Theses on Convergence Media in the Digital Age 29\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnna Everett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The Double Logic of Remediation 46\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJay David Bolter and Richard Grusin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The Database 50\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLev Manovich\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Making Meaning of Mobiles: A Theory of Apparatgeist 65\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames E. Katz and Mark A. Aakhus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART TWO SPACE, PLACE, COMMUNITY 77\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Post-Sedentary Space 79\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilliam J. Mitchell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 The End of Geography or the Explosion of Place?: Conceptualizing Space, Place and Information Technology 90\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen Graham\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Asphalt Games: Enacting Place Through Locative Media 109\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichele Chang and Elizabeth Goodman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Thought on the Convergence of Digital Media, Memory, and Social and Urban Spaces 117\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFederico Casalegno\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART THREE RACE IN\/AND CYBERSPACE 129\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Cybertyping and the Work of Race in the Age of Digital Reproduction 132\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLisa Nakamura\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Thinking Through the Diaspora: Call Centers, India, and a New Politics of Hybridity 151\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRaka Shome\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Voices of the Marginalized on the Internet: Examples from a Website for Women of South Asia 166\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnanda Mitra\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART FOUR BODIES, EMBODIMENT, BIOPOLITICS 183\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Hypes, Hopes and Actualities: New Digital Cartesianism and Bodies in Cyberspace 185\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMegan Boler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 The Bioethics of Cybermedicalization 209\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndy Miah and Emma Rich\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Biocolonialism, Genomics, and the Databasing of the Population 221\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEugene Thacker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART FIVE GENDER, SEX, AND SEXUALITIES 251\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Assembling Bodies in Cyberspace: Technologies, Bodies, and Sexual Difference 254\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDianne Currier\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Lesbians in (Cyber)space: The Politics of the Internet in Latin American On- and Off-line Communities 268\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eElisabeth Jay Friedman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 E-Rogenous Zones: Positioning Pornography in the Digital Economy 284\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlaise Cronin and Elisabeth Davenport\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Race, Gender and Sex on the Net: Semantic Networks of Selling and Storytelling Sex Tourism 307\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeter A. Chow-White\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART SIX POLITICS, POLITICAL ACTION, ACTIVISM 325\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Internet Studies in Times of Terror 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Silver and Alice Marwick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Free Labor: Producing Culture for the Digital Economy 335\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTiziana Terranova\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Ensuring Minority Rights in a Pluralistic and \"Liquid\" Information Society 357\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBirgitte Kofod Olsen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Hacktivism: All Together in the Virtual 369\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTim Jordan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART SEVEN GAMES, GAMING, META-UNIVERSES 379\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Games Telling Stories: A Brief Note on Games and Narratives 382\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJesper Juul\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 WoW is the New MUD: Social Gaming from Text to Video 394\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTorill Elvira Mortensen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 Women and Games: Technologies of the Gendered Self 408\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePam Royse, Joon Lee, Baasanjav Undrahbuyan, Mark Hopson, and Mia Consalvo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 To the White Extreme: Conquering Athletic Space, White Manhood, and Racing Virtual Reality 425\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid J. Leonard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Your Second Life?: Goodwill and the Performativity of Intellectual Property in Online Digital Gaming 441\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndrew Herman, Rosemary J. Coombe, and Lewis Kaye\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART EIGHT THE DIGITAL, THE MOBILE, THE PERSONAL, AND THE EVERYDAY 465\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 Taking Risky Opportunities in Youthful Content Creation: Teenagers' Use of Social Networking Sites for Intimacy, Privacy and Self-expression 468\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSonia Livingstone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 Dynamics of Internet Dating 483\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHelene M. Lawson and Kira Leck\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Screening Moments, Scrolling Lives: Diary Writing on the Web 499\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMadeleine Sorapure\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 Your Life in Snapshots: Mobile Weblogs 515\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNicola Döring and Axel Gundolf\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 Assembling Portable Talk and Mobile Worlds: Sound Technologies and Mobile Social Networks 526\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Farnsworth and Terry Austrin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 New Media, Networking and Phatic Culture 534\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVincent Miller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 544\u003c\/p\u003e  \"Recommended. Lower-and-upper division undergraduates; general readers.\" (Choice , 1 April 2011)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cp\u003e\"This collection is a timely, thought-provoking reflection on the social and cultural impacts of cyberspace and new media. I highly recommend it to scholars, teachers, students and indeed all those interested in new media and cyberculture.\" (\u003ci\u003eM\/C Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, September 11, 2010)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePramod K. Nayar\u003c\/b\u003e teaches in the Department of English at the 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 Culture: Theory, Praxis, Politics\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), \u003ci\u003eAn Introduction to Cultural Studies\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), \u003ci\u003eSeeing Stars: Spectacle, Society and Celebrity Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), \u003ci\u003ePackaging Life: Cultures of the Everyday\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), and \u003ci\u003eAn Introduction to New Media and Cybercultures\u003c\/i\u003e (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Media and Cybercultures Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e collects essential readings for both the student and scholar of a diverse range of fields, including new and digital media, internet studies, digital arts and culture studies, network culture studies, and the information society. Created for the undergraduate, this wide-ranging and diverse collection explores the many facets of cyberculture, and includes sections on race, politics, gender, theory, gaming, and space.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe perfect companion to Nayar's \u003ci\u003eIntroduction to New Media and Cyberculture\u003c\/i\u003e, the volume incorporates essays by both new and established scholars of digital cultures, including Kathy Hayles, Andy Miah, Lev Manovich, Eugene Thacker, Lisa Nakamura, Sonia Livingstone, and Jesper Juul. Moving beyond traditional cyberculture studies paradigms in several key ways, this comprehensive collection marks the increasing convergence of cyberculture with other forms of media, and with all aspects of our everyday lives in a digitized world.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"Underscoring the larger socio-political, economic and cultural contexts of digital and new media cultures, this refreshingly diverse and interdisciplinary collection of scholarship offers a significant and timely contribution to the field of cyberculture studies.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eKristin Scott\u003c\/b\u003e, George Mason University  \u003cp\u003e\"What are cybercultures? Today, this question can only be asked and answered in the plural. \u003ci\u003eThe New Media and Cybercultures Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e gives us a broad and well-nigh definitive sampling of reflections on how new technologies have changed our lives.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eSteven Shaviro\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eConnected, Or, What It Means To Live in the Network Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"It is obvious that screens, and what happens on them, are only part of the story of new media in the early 21st century. These texts, ambitiously brought together by Pramod K. Nayar, provide some significant signposts for grasping the networks of flesh, fiber and affect operating inside, outside and beyond the screen.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eRyan Griffis\u003c\/b\u003e, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This collection gathers together interesting and important essays which enable its readers to usefully and sensibly approach to the studies of new media and cyberculture.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eTerri He\u003c\/b\u003e, Kaohsiung Medical University and National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990297755877,"sku":"NP9781405183086","price":86.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405183086.jpg?v=1761787250","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-new-media-and-cybercultures-anthology-isbn-9781405183086","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}