Product Description

Cyberculture Theorists is the ideal starting point for anyone wanting to understand how to theorise cyberculture in all its forms. It surveys a ‘cluster’ of works that explore the cultures of cyberspace, the Internet and the information society.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #260099 in Books
• Published on: 2006-12-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 200 pages

From the Back Cover

This book surveys a ‘cluster’ of works that seek to explore the cultures of cyberspace, the Internet and the information society. It introduces key ideas, and includes detailed discussion of the work of two key thinkers in this area, Manuel Castells and Donna Haraway, as well as outlining the development of cyberculture studies as a field. To do this, the book also explores selected ‘moments’ in this development, from the early 1990s, when cyberspace and cyberculture were only just beginning to come together as ideas, up to the present day, when the field of cyberculture studies has grown and bloomed, producing innovative theoretical and empirical work from a diversity of standpoints.  Key topics include:

• Life on the screen
• Network society
• Space of flows
• Cyborg methods

Cyberculture Theorists is the ideal starting point for anyone wanting to understand how to theorise cyberculture in all its myriad forms.

David Bell teaches in the School of Geography at the University of Leeds. Recent publications include The Cybercultures Reader, An Introduction to Cybercultures and Cyberculture: The Key Concepts.

About the Author
Department of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University.