Cultures of Internet : virtual spaces, real histories, living bodies

著者

• Shields, Rob

書誌事項

Cultures of Internet : virtual spaces, real histories, living bodies

edited by Rob Shields

Sage, 1996

• : pbk

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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.

目次

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

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA27676059
• ISBN:
  • 080397518X
  • 0803975198
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: London
• ページ数/冊数: viii, 196 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • DC20 : 303.4834
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Internet (Computer network) -- Social aspects
  • LCSH : Virtual reality -- Social aspects
  • LCSH : Information superhighway -- Social aspects