Description
Book SynopsisIn the extension of digital media from optional means to central site of activity, the domains of language, art, learning, play, film, and politics have been subject to radical reconfigurations as mediating structures. This book examines how this changed relationship has in each case shaped a new form of discourse between self and culture and illustrates explicitly the character of mediated agency beyond the formal separateness from lived experience that was once conveniently termed the virtual and which has come to influence common assumptions about creative expression itself.
Trade Review"They essays collected in Cyberculture and New Media, speak to a cyberculture constantly supplanted by technological innovation and a restless adaptation, substitution, and convergence of art, craft, and language. The collection seeks to facilitate interdisciplinary projects and inquiry that are innovative, imaginative, and creatively interactive." - John F. Barber, Washington State University Vancouver
Table of ContentsPreface: ‘Until Something Else’ – A Theoretical Introduction PART 1 The Empirical Francisco J. RICARDO: Formalisms of Digital Text Sheizaf RAFAELI, Tsahi HAYAT, Yaron ARIEL: Knowledge Building and Motivations in Wikipedia: Participation as “Ba” Mahmoud EID: On the Way to the Cyber-Arab-Culture: International Communication, Telecommunications Policies, and Democracy Rita ZALTSMAN: The Challenge of Intercultural Electronic Learning: English as Lingua Franca PART 2 The Aesthetic Nicole RIDGWAY and Nathaniel STERN: The Implicit Body Leman GIRESUNLU: Cyborg Goddesses: the Mainframe Revisited Maria BÄCKE: De-Colonizing Cyberspace: Post-Colonial Strategies in Cyberfiction Tony RICHARDS: The Différance Engine: Videogames as Deconstructive Spacetime Alev ADIL and Steve KENNEDY: Technology on Screen: Projections, Paranoia and Discursive practice Seppo KUIVAKARI: Desistant Media List of Contributors Index
