| Synopsis: |
This introduction to cybercultures provides a cutting-edge and much needed guide to the rapidly changing world of new media and communication.* Considers cyberculture and new media through contemporary race, gender and sexuality studies and postcolonial theory* Offers a clear analysis of some of the most complex issues in cybercultures, including identity, network societies, new geographies, and connectivity* Includes discussions of gaming, social networking, geography, net-democracy, aesthetics, popular internet culture, the body, sexuality and politics* Examines key questions in the political economy, racialization, gendering and governance of cyberculture |