Cyberculture Theorists: Manuel Castells and Donna Haraway

by David Bell

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134346745
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/15/2006
Series:	Routledge Critical Thinkers
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	238 KB

About the Author

David Bell

Table of Contents

Series editor’s preface, Acknowledgements, WHY CYBERCULTURE?, MOMENTS IN CYBERCULTURE, WHY CASTELLS?, CASTELLS’ KEY IDEAS, AFTER CASTELLS, WHY HARAWAY?, HARAWAY’S KEY IDEAS, AFTER HARAWAY, AFTER CYBERCULTURE, Further reading, Other works cited, Index