Cyberculture Theorists: Manuel Castells and Donna Haraway (Routledge Critical Thinkers) - Hardcover

Bell, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415324300 ISBN 13: 9780415324304

Publisher: Routledge, 2006

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

David Bell is Professor of Cultural Studies, Staffordshire University, UK.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0415324300
• ISBN 13: 9780415324304
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176