Cyberculture

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Overview

Needing guidance and seeking insight, the Council of Europe approached Pierre Lévy, one of the world's most important and well-respected theorists of digital culture, for a report on the state (and, frankly, the nature) of cyberspace. The result is this extraordinary document, a perfectly lucid and accessible description of cyberspace-from infrastructure to practical applications-along with an inspired, far-reaching exploration of its ramifications. A window on the digital world for the technologically timid, the book also offers a brilliant vision of the philosophical and social realities and possibilities of cyberspace for the adept and novice alike. In an overview, Lévy discusses the distinguishing features of cyberspace and cyberculture from anthropological, philosophical, cultural, and sociological points of view. An optimist about the future potential of cyberspace, he eloquently argues that technology-and specifically the infrastructure of cyberspace, the Internet-can have a transformative effect on global society. Some of the issues he takes up are new art forms; changes in relationships to knowledge, education, and training; the preservation of linguistic and cultural differences; the emergence and implications of collective intelligence; the problems of social exclusion; and the impact of new technology on the city and democracy in general. In considerable detail, Lévy describes the ways in which cyberspace will help promote the growth of democracy, primarily through the participation of individuals or groups. His analysis is enlivened by his own personal impressions of cyberculture-garnered from bulletin boards, mailing lists, virtual reality demonstrations, andsimulations. Immediate in its details, visionary in its scope, deeply informed yet free of unnecessary technical language, Cyberculture is the book we require in our digital age.

About the Authours:
Pierre Lévy is professor of cyberculture and social communication at the University of Quebec and consultant to the Forward Studies Unit of the European Union on issues of governance and electronic democracy. His many books include Becoming Virtual (1998) and Collective Intelligence (1999). Robert Bononno, a teacher and translator, lives in New York City.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780816636105
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 10/3/2001
Series: Electronic Mediations Series
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 208
Sales rank: 842,646
Product dimensions: 5.88 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.80 (d)

	Introduction
	Deluges
Pt. I	Definitions
1	The Impact of Technology	3
2	The Technical Infrastructure of the Virtual	13
3	Digital Technology and the Virtualization of Information	27
4	Interactivity	59
5	Cyberspace, or The Virtualization of Communication	67
Pt. II	Theoretical Issues
6	The Universal without Totality: The Essence of Cyberculture	91
7	The Social Movement of Cyberculture	103
8	The Sound of Cyberculture	115
9	The Art of Cyberculture	125
10	The New Relationship to Knowledge	137
11	Education and the Economy of Knowledge	149
12	The Knowledge Tree	157
13	Cyberspace, the City, and Electronic Democracy	165
Pt. III	Problems
14	Conflict	181
15	Critique of Substitution	193
16	Critique of Domination	203
17	Critique of Criticism	211
18	Answers to Common Questions	219
	Conclusion: Cyberculture, or The Simultaneous Tradition	233
	Notes	237
	Index	245

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