Cultures of Internet : virtual spaces, real histories, living bodies / edited by Rob Shields

Contributor(s):

Shields, Rob [ed.]

Publication details: London [etc.] : SAGE, 1996Edition: 1rst edDescription: viii, 196 pISBN:

080397518X

Summary: 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. Accessible and lively, the book draws in contributions from Europe, North America and developing countries. It will appeal to students of sociology, cultural studies and computer studies. (Font: Editor)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Sala	General	S 00185	1	Available		1900044039

Introduction. Virtual spaces, real histories and living bodies / Rob Shields -- 1. Is there free speech on the net? Censorship in the global information infrastructure / Leslie Regan Shade -- 2. The labyrinth of minitel / André Lemos -- 3. Cool runnings. The coming of cybereality in Jamaica / Joerge Dyrkton -- 4. Is there a body in the net? / Katie Argyle and Rob Shields -- 5. A geography of the eye: the technologies of virtual reality / Ken Hillis -- 6. The coming of cyberspacetime and the end of the polity / Dan Thu Nguyen and Jon Alexander -- 7. Contradictions in cyberspace: Collective response / Interrogate the Internet -- 8. Life after death / Katie Argyle -- 9. Are MUDs communities? Identity, belonging and consciousness in virtual worlds / Heather Bromberg -- 10. Psychoanalysis and cyberspace / Mark Lajoie -- 11. On the Matrix: Cyberfeminist simulations / Sadie Plant -- Index

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