Material Virtualities

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Material Virtualities

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Author : Jenny Sundén
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Release Date : 2003

Material Virtualities written by Jenny Sundén and has been published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Computers categories.

What does it mean to be embodied online? What are the conditions of cybersubjectivity? In Material Virtualities, Jenny Sundén explores the rarely acknowledged borderland between typists and textual bodies, speaking and writing, and physicality and imagination in online encounters. Through careful ethnographic investigations of a text-based virtual world called WaterMOO, Sundén shows how texts, bodies, and machines are linked together in ways that demand a new understanding of the writing subject. Drawing on contemporary feminist and queer theory, she questions the opposition between disembodied, high-tech masculinity and embodied, earth-bound femininity, insisting on the need for a radical materialization of cybercultural studies that discloses the «virtual» as itself embodied.

Material Virtualities

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Author : Jenny Sundén
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002

Material Virtualities written by Jenny Sundén and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with categories.

Cyberfeminism In Northern Lights

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Author : Malin Sveningsson Elm
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007

Cyberfeminism In Northern Lights written by Malin Sveningsson Elm and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Computers categories.

What does it mean to study supposedly global media phenomena from a Nordic perspective? In which ways could a Nordic feminist perspective on digital media make a difference in relation to dominant research traditions? What would be particular and unique about Nordic cyberfeminism â " compared to the â oeunmarkedâ version of cyberfeminism dominating the field today? These are some of the questions that this book sets out to answer. Cyberfeminism in Northern Lights: Digital Media and Gender in a Nordic Context pushes the boundaries of contemporary cyberfeminism significantly. Against the background of an expanding body of research in the field of digital media and gender â " which to this date has primarily been carried out from an Anglo-American perspective â " the book argues that feminist studies of digital media need to become more inclusive and aware of their own geographical and cultural biases and limits. The book takes as its point of departure the knowledge and experiences from the Nordic countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland and Denmark. Although often grouped together under the assumed homogeneity of Scandinavia, there are important differences between the countries â " but also certain qualities and aspects that run across national borders, which make for an intriguing foundation of this book. â ~Highlighting the work of several of Scandinavia's best internet researchers, this collection shows how our understanding of the intersection of gender and computer technology is both universal and cultural. It's fascinating reading for anyone interested in questions of gender, culture, or social aspects of the internet and serves as a useful corrective for those who assume these issues can be understood without considering them from multiple cultural positions.â (TM) Nancy Baym, Associate professor of Communication Studies, University of Kansas. â ~This is a very illuminating, unconventional and agenda-setting collection of essays by a new generation of scholars. Very Nordic in its pragmatic approach, egalitarian spirit and scholarly excellence, it manages to strike a global note. The range, depth and scope of the theoretical concerns, coupled with the originality of the themes discussed casts a new light on a number of crucial issues in feminist cultural studies of science and technology. A delight to read!â (TM) Rosi Braidotti, Distinguished professor in the Humanities, Utrecht University.

Viral Ports Virtual Currents

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Author : Paul Michael Leonardo Atienza
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010

Viral Ports Virtual Currents written by Paul Michael Leonardo Atienza and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Gay people categories.

Myth Technology And The Post Human Subject In William Gibson S Sprawl Trilogy

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Author : Markus Kienscherf
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2007

Myth Technology And The Post Human Subject In William Gibson S Sprawl Trilogy written by Markus Kienscherf and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Master's Thesis from the year 2004 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: Distinction, University of Newcastle upon Tyne (School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics), 35 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Gibson's fiction both embraces the potential of technology for undermining traditional categories and, at the same time, encodes a nostalgic longing for the stable identities produced by these very categories. This study will show how William Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy blends high-tech and myth in order to articulate an oxymoronic tension between possessed and possessive individualism. This oxymoronic tension is expressed through Gibson's literary production of two particular technologies: the cyborg and the net. This study will interrogate these two literary constructs in Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy in order to show how they impinge on ideas of signification, subjectivity, and identity.

South Asian Technospaces

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Author : Radhika Gajjala
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Release Date : 2008

South Asian Technospaces written by Radhika Gajjala and has been published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Art categories.

This book provides perspectives on how South Asian - often, more specifically, Indian - diasporas inhabit techno-mediated environments through their economic and socio-cultural activities. The themes examined include religion, caste, language, and gender in online communities and call centers, and the roles of these factors in the global economy, Bollywood online and offline, digital music, websites for arranging marriages, and so on. The book attempts to map «South Asia» in relation to global technospaces produced through and as a consequence of economic globalization efforts.

Digital Borderlands

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Author : Johan Fornäs
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Release Date : 2002

Digital Borderlands written by Johan Fornäs and has been published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Art categories.

The Internet crosses established boundaries of previously separate fields of communication and research. In its wake, new borderlands are opened up - characterized by mixes of private and public, production and consumption, and play and politics. This book explores those borderlands and overviews key issues in the study of Internet culture. Digital Borderlands investigates four ways in which identities are shaped through interactive uses of the Internet - love relations, gendered bodies, girl webzines, and cosmopolitan sites all exemplify how new media transforms older forms of popular entertainment and political culture.

Virtual Communities

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Author : Felicia Wu Song
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Release Date : 2009

Virtual Communities written by Felicia Wu Song and has been published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Computers categories.

Does contemporary Internet technology strengthen civic engagement and democratic practice? The recent surge in online community participation has become a cultural phenomenon enmeshed in ongoing debates about the health of American civil society. But observations about online communities often concentrate on ascertaining the true nature of community and democracy, typically rehearsing familiar communitarian and liberal perspectives. This book seeks to understand the technology on its own terms, focusing on how the technological and organizational configurations of online communities frame our contemporary beliefs and assumptions about community and the individual. It analyzes key structural features of thirty award-winning online community websites to show that while the values of individual autonomy, egalitarianism, and freedom of speech dominate the discursive content of these communities, the practical realities of online life are clearly marked by exclusivity and the demands of commercialization and corporate surveillance. Promises of social empowerment are framed within consumer and therapeutic frameworks that undermine their democratic efficacy. As a result, online communities fail to revolutionize the civic landscape because they create cultures of membership that epitomize the commodification of community and public life altogether.

Youth Identity And Digital Media

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Author : David Buckingham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008

Youth Identity And Digital Media written by David Buckingham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Computers categories.

"The contributors explore how young people use digital media to share ideas and creativity and to participate in networks that are small and large, local and global, intimate and anonymous. They look at the emergence of new genres and forms, from SMS and instant messaging to home pages, blogs, and social networking sites. They discuss such topics as "girl power" online, the generational digital divide, young people and mobile communication, and the appeal of the "digital publics" of MySpace, considering whether these media offer young people genuinely new forms of engagement, interaction, and communication."--BOOK JACKET.

Edited By Alexander Horwath Michael Loebenstein

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Author : Alexander Horwath
language : en
Publisher: Synema - Gesellschaft Fur Film Und Medien
Release Date : 2005

Edited By Alexander Horwath Michael Loebenstein written by Alexander Horwath and has been published by Synema - Gesellschaft Fur Film Und Medien this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

The films of Peter Tscherkassky have played a central role in the reawakening of avant-garde film. His work has run an exciting course-from the anarchic gesture of Super-8 filmmaking through an engagement with psychoanalysis and semiotics towards a newfound pleasure with the physicality of the medium and its potential to overwhelm the audience. Essays about and by Tscherkassky are complemented by rich photographs and frame enlargements.