Contains contemporary articles by key thinkers in the field of cybercultures studies. This work includes a full bibliography and a user guide. The contents include: Contents include: Approaching Cyberculture; Popular Cybercultures; Cybercommunities; Cyberidentities; Cyberfeminisms; Cyberbodies; Cyberlife; Cyberpolitics; and, Beyond Cybercultures.

Offering a theory of new media, this book places the recent developments within the history of visual culture of the last few centuries. The reliance on old conventions as well as ideas unique to new media are explored, with particular emphasis on the role of the cinema.

Opening with a historical overview of the field, and positing what cyberculture's future might look like, this volume brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars from around the world to assess the state of the field. It also explores issues of race, class, and gender and digital media's ties to capital and commerce.

This wide-ranging introductory text looks at the virtual community of cyberspace and analyses its relationship to the real one as lived out in todays societies.

An analysis of the virtual community of online networking, revealing the similarities between inter-personal relationships in the virtual world with the way people relate outside. Both the supportive and the darker sides of people's behaviour online is explored.

This text answers fundamental questions about life in the information age. In the original meaning of the word, "hackers" are enthusiastic computer programmers who share their work with others. In this book, the authors show how hackers represent a new opposing ethos for the information age.

An investigation into the realities of human embodiment and the limits of virtual worlds. Topics examined include: the challenge presented by cyberspace to the social and cultural forms of the human body and the cultural implications of the changing relationship between the body and technology.

A companion volume to The Cybercultures Reader, An Introduction to Cyberculture introduces students to all the major themes and concepts in this rapidly-growing field.

An idiosyncratic guide to the interactive, telematic era, this book maps out the trajectories that digital technologies have traced upon our cultural imaginary. This evaluation of new media includes a discussion of the digital artists, designers and makers who matter most.

Human communication has traditionally revealed important aspects of identity such as gender, age and race. However, such information is now often masked by computer-mediated communications. This text examines the various ways modern technology is challenging conventional notions of gender identity.

The Cyborg (short for cybernetic organism) is an entity that mixes the mechanic and the organic, for example people who have implanted pacemakers. The Cyborg Handbook is an initial look at cyborg society and at the range of cyborg technologies.

A diverse and, at times, fractious discussion of issues raised by the development of the Internet, multimedia development, fiction and hypertext, and electronic publishing and education. The text asks such questions as: what is cyberfeminism?; and is the Internet a feminist issue?

Here, Murray shows how the computer is reshaping the stories we live by and discusses the properties and pleasures of digital environments and connects them with the traditional satisfactions of narrative.

Neuromancer is the most influential science fiction novel of our time. Cyberspace and virtual reality were invented in this book. It changed forever the way we look at tomorrow and was the inspiration behind the blockbuster film The Matrix. In 2009 it celebrates its 25th Anniversary.

There's a belief that cyberspace cannot be regulated - that is, its very essence is immune from the government's control. This book presents an argument that this belief is wrong. It shows that the nature of cyberspace is unregulable as cyberspace has no nature. It only has code - the software and hardware that makes cyberspace what it is.

Part personal history, part travel narrative, part philosophical reflection on the meaning of games, this book describes the author's encounters with gamers in three gaming cities: London, Seoul, and Reyjkavik. It introduces us to an emerging and doubted world of gaming lives.

With the surge of interest in tech DIY and the rising popularity of MAKE , this title is suitable for loyal MAKE readers seeking a collectible reference resource as well as newcomers to the making movement who want to catch up on what they missed in earlier volumes. It includes the best DIY projects from the first 10 volumes.

The ultimate tale of teen rebellion -- one seventeen-year-old against the surveillance state.