Cultural Cyborgs: Life at the Interface / Edited by Wayne Rumbles.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rumbles, Wayne, editor.

Series:

Critical Issues

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cyberspace--Social aspects.

Cyberspace.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (163 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Cultural Cyborgs: Life at the Interface is a collection of essays which explore the augmented lives of people, communities and society at the interface between cyberspace and 'real space.' Each essay explores a different aspect of the hybrid cultural and social existence which is cyberculture.

Contents:

""Front Cover ""; ""Inside Cover ""; ""Advisory Board ""; ""ISBN ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Introduction: Wayne Rumbles ""; ""Part I: Concepts of Cyberspace and Cybercultures ""; ""The Hermeneutics of the Cyber-Subject: Fletcher ""; ""Cyberspace: Martinez ""; ""Part II: Cyber-Subcultures ""; ""Cyber Disability: Bothwell ""; ""I [Heart] Ana: Newby ""; ""Queer CouchSurfers: Kosinska ""; ""Part III: Virtual Bodies ""; ""Quotidian Visual Images: Barichko ""; ""Electronic Angels and Digital Devils: Rumbles ""; ""Part IV: Controversial Issues in Cyberlife ""

""Scandal in Filipino Pop-Cyberculture: Mangahas """"Who's Blocking the Chinese Internet: Wang ""; ""Part V: Fan Cultures Online ""; ""The Scene as Online and Offline Music Network: Barna ""; ""When I Saw You, or Whatever Happened to Movie Fans after YouTube: Zaglewski ""; ""Part VI: New Media ""; ""Conversing with and Commercially Controlling the Customer: Baumann ""; ""Cyberculture, Politics and the Public Sphere amongst Diasporic Groups in the UAE: Allagui & Breslow ""; ""Political Communication in Social Networking Websites: Suminas ""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84888-067-7

OCLC:

891382411

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848880672 DOI