Frontiers of Cyberspace.

The content of this volume reflects theoretical and practical discussions on cultural issues influenced by increased adoption of information and communication technologies. The penetration of new forms of communication, such as online social networking, i.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Riha, Daniel
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2012.
Series:At the interface/probing the boundaries.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; PART I Critical Philosophies; The Doubtful Chances of Choice; Technoscience and Schizophrenia: The Technological Production of Nature and Biology under Control; A Phenomenological Analysis of Social Networking; PART II Cyber-Identity; My Self, My Avatar, My Rights? Avatar Identity in Social Virtual Worlds; Too Faced? Reconsidering Friendship in the Digital Age; Experiences of Embodiment and Subjectivity in Haunting Ground; PART III Virtual Environments and Academia.
  • Trans-Generational Dialogues: Social Sciences as Multimedia GamesInteractive 3-D Documentary as Serious Videogame; Ecosystem of Knowledge: Strategies, Rituals and Metaphors in Networked Communication; PART IV Cyberpunk Literature and Film; Gender Resistance: Interrogating the 'Punk' in Cyberpunk; What Does a Scanner See? Techno-Fascination and Unreliability in the Mind-Game Film; Modern Myths: Science Fiction in the Age of Technology; PART V Merger of Cyberspace and Art; 'Cyborg Art' as a Critical Sphere of Inquiry into Increasing Corporeal Human-Technology Merger.