Computers
Hanging Out in the Virtual Pub
Lori Kendall is one of the first to explore the brave new world of social relations as they have evolved on the Internet. In this highly readable ethnography, she examines how men and women negotiate their gender roles on an online forum she calls BlueSky.
Telematic Embrace
Long before e-mail and the Internet permeated society, Roy Ascott, a pioneering British artist and theorist, coined the term "telematic art" to describe the use of online computer networks as an artistic medium. In Telematic Embrace Edward A.
Avatars of Story
Marie-Laure Ryan moves beyond literary works to examine other media, especially electronic narrative forms, revealing how story, a form of meaning that transcends cultures and media, achieves diversity by presenting itself under multiple avatars.
Connected
Connected is made up of a series of mini-essays"”on cyberpunk, hip-hop, film noir, Web surfing, greed, electronic surveillance, pervasive multimedia, psychedelic drugs, artificial intelligence, and evolutionary psychology, among other topics.
Cybering Democracy
In Cybering Democracy, Diana Saco boldly reconceptualizes the relationship between democratic participation and spatial realities both actual and virtual.
Cyberspaces of Everyday Life
Cyberspaces of Everyday Life provides a critical framework for understanding how the Internet takes part in the production of social space.
Digital Sensations
Virtual reality is in the news and in the movies, on TV and in the air. Why is the technology"”or the idea"”so prevalent precisely now? What does it mean"”what does it do"”to us?
Gaming
In Gaming, Alexander R. Galloway considers the video game as a distinct cultural form that demands a new and unique interpretive framework.
Hacker Culture
Douglas Thomas provides an in-depth history of this important and fascinating subculture, contrasting mainstream images of hackers with a detailed firsthand account of the computer underground.
There’s No Place Like Home Video
In There"™s No Place Like Home Video, James Moran offers a history of amateur home video, exploring its technological and ideological predecessors, the development of event videography, and home video"™s symbiotic relationship with television and film.