Cyberculture and new media

Summary: In 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. Francisco J. Ricardo is Research Associate at the University Professors Program and co-director of the Digital Video Research Archive at Boston University, and teaches digital media theory at the Rhode Island School of Design. He has degrees from Harvard University and Boston University. His research examines historical, conceptual, and computational intersections between contemporary and new media art.

Record details

ISBN: 9781441601094 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1441601090 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9042025182
ISBN: 9789042025189
ISBN: 9042025182
ISBN: 9789042025189
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (vi, 312 p.) : ill.
Publisher: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Formalisms of digital text / Francisco J. Ricardo -- Knowledge building and motivations in Wikipedia : participation as "ba" / Sheizaf Rafaeli, Tsahi Hayat, Yaron Ariel -- On the way to the cyber-Arab-culture : international communication, telecommunications policies, and democracy / Mahmoud Eid -- The challenge of intercultural electronic learning : English as lingua franca / Rita Zaltsman -- The implicit body / Nicole Ridgway and Nathaniel Stern -- Cyborg goddesses : the mainframe revisited / Leman Giresunlu -- De-colonizing cyberspace : post-colonial strategies in cyberfiction / Maria Bäcke -- The différance engine : videogames as deconstructive spacetime / Tony Richard -- Technology on screen : projections, paranoia and discursive practice / Alev Adil and Steve Kennedy -- Distant media / Seppo Kuivakari.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.