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Book SynopsisCybercultures: Mediations of Community, Culture, Politics, is a collection of essays that critically examine the role that digital media and online cultures play in the rearticulation of contemporary societies, cultures and polities. This volume interrogates the nature and effects of the existence of cybercultures in the world of Web 2.0, new media and media convergence, and mobile digital networks. It does so by examining the effect of cybercultures upon the contemporary articulation of phenomena as diverse as bodily experience, memory, the imagination, history, political participation, the nature of community, artistic creativity, and the instability of rhetoric, language and meaning.
Table of ContentsHarris Breslow and Aris Mousoutzanis: Introduction The Nature of Cyberspace Gary Thompson: Electronic Kairos Scott Sundvall: Post-Human, All too Non-Human: Implications of the Cyber-Rhizome Prosthetic Subjectivity Daniel Riha: Machinima, Creative Software and Education for Creativity Fredrik Gundelsweiler and Christian Filk: Future Media Platforms for Convergence Journalisms Judith Guevarra Enriquez: Bodily Aware in Cyber-Research Cybercultures and the Public Sphere Jernej Prodnik: Post-Fordist Communities and Cyberspace: A Critical Approach Harris Breslow and Ilhem Allagui: The Internet, Fixity, and Flow: Challenges to the Articulation of an Imagined Community Fidele Vlavo: ‘Click Here to Protest’: Electronic Civil Disobedience and the Imaginaire of Virtual Activism Mediatisation of Memory Heiko Zimmermann: Diverging Strategies of Remembrance in Traditional and Web-2.0 On-Line Projects Martin Pogačar: Music Blogging: Saving Yugoslav Popular Music
