The Cybercultures Reader

This updated and thoroughly revised second edition of the best-selling The Cybercultures Reader, includes specially selected contemporary articles by key thinkers in the expanding field of cybercultures studies.

With general and thematic section introductions, a full bibliography and user guide, this latest edition is an indispensable resource for all those interested in living with and thinking about new technologies.

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The writings collected here provide a guide to the ways new technologies are re-shaping cultural forms and practices. The editors provide an introduction to the study of cyberculture, a user's guide to the volume, introductions to each thematic section, and a bibliography of cybertexts. Sections discuss issues like popular cybercultures, cybersubcultures, cyberfeminisms, cybersexualities, cyberbodies, post [cyber]bodies, scaling cyberspace, and cybercolonization. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

David Bell is senior lecturer in Critical Human Geography and leader of the Urban Cultures & Consumption research cluster at the University of Leeds. His previous publications include An Introduction to Cybercultures (2001) and Cyberculture Theorists: Manuel Castells & Donna Haraway (2006)

Barbara Kennedy is Reader in Film, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Staffordshire. Her previous publications include Deleuze and Cinema: The Aesthetics of Sensation (2000), The Cybercultures Reader with David Bell (2000) and a variety of articles in journals on feminist film theory, philosophy, dance, choreography and cultural studies.