Cultures of the Internet

Virtual Spaces, Real Histories, Living Bodies
1. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-0-8039-7519-4
Verlag: Sage Publications UK

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 322 g

The Internet is here but have we caught up with all the implications for culture and everyday life? This collection of original articles on the development of computer-mediated communications brings together many of the most accomplished writers on the Net and cyberspace. Cultures of Internet examines the arrival of e-mail and online discussion groups, and considers the prospect of an `online world' - a playground for virtual bodies in which identities are flexible, swappable and disconnected from real-world bodies. The book traces the rise of virtual conviviality and how it supplements the physical encounters between actors in public spaces that are abandoned to the homeless. The book is distinguished by a critical and social tone. It presents systematic descriptions of the development of the Internet, its history in the military-industrial complex, the role of state policies leading, for example, to the creation of Minitel, and the building of information `superhighways'. It also explores the development of this technology as a commercialized leisure form and a forum for underground political organization and critique.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shields, Robert M

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein Soziale und ethische Aspekte der EDV
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Digital Lifestyle Internet, E-Mail, Social Media
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - Rob Shields
Virtual Spaces, Real Histories and Living Bodies
Is There Free Speech on the Net? - Leslie Regan Shade
Censorship in the Global Information Infrastructure
The Labyrinth of Minitel - Andr[ac]e Lemos
Cool Runnings - Joerge Dyrkton
The Coming of Cybereality in Jamaica
Is There a Body in the Net? - Katie Argyle and Rob Shields
A Geography of the Eye - Ken Hillis
The Technologies of Virtual Reality
The Coming of Cyberspacetime and the End of the Polity - Dan Thu Nguyen and Jon Alexander
Contradictions in Cyberspace - Interrogate the Internet
Collective Response
Life After Death - Katie Argyle
Are MUDs Communities? - Heather Bromberg
Identity, Belonging and Consciousness in Virtual Worlds
Psychoanalysis and Cyberspace - Mark Lajoie
On the Matrix - Sadie Plant
Cyberfeminist Simulations

Über Autor(innen)

Shields, Robert M
Rob Shields lectures in Culture and Communication at Lancaster University and maintains links with Carleton University, where he is Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology. He is author of Places on the Margin (1990) and Lifestyle Shopping (1993), and co-editor of Social Engineering: The Technics of Change (1995).

CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE WESTERN HEMISPHERE

David Chaney Durham University
Sadie Plant University of Birmingham
Mike Featherstone Goldsmiths, UK
Andre Lemos Universite Paris V