Reload

Rethinking Women and Cyberculture

Mary Flanagan, Austin Booth (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

596 Seiten

2002
MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-06227-5 (ISBN)

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An anthology of feminist cyberfiction and theoretical and critical writings on gender and technoculture.

Most writing on cyberculture is dominated by two almost mutually exclusive visions: the heroic image of the male outlaw hacker and the utopian myth of a gender-free cyberworld. Reload offers an alternative picture of cyberspace as a complex and contradictory place where there is oppression as well as liberation. It shows how cyberpunk's revolutionary claims conceal its ultimate conservatism on matters of class, gender, and race. The cyberfeminists writing here view cyberculture as a social experiment with an as-yet-unfulfilled potential to create new identities, relationships, and cultures.The book brings together women's cyberfiction--fiction that explores the relationship between people and virtual technologies--and feminist theoretical and critical investigations of gender and technoculture. From a variety of viewpoints, the writers consider the effects of rapid and profound technological change on culture, in particular both the revolutionary and reactionary effects of cyberculture on women's lives. They also explore the feminist implications of the cyborg, a human-machine hybrid.
The writers challenge the conceptual and institutional rifts between high and low culture, which are embedded in the texts and artifacts of cyberculture.

Mary Flanagan, artist and game designer, is Founder and Director of Tiltfactor Laboratory and Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of Digital Humanities at Dartmouth College. She is the coeditor (with Austin Booth) of Reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture (2002) and re:skin (2002), both published by the MIT Press. Austin Booth is Director of Collections and Research Services at State University of New York at Buffalo.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.5.2002
Zusatzinfo	14
Verlagsort	Cambridge, Mass.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 229 mm
Gewicht	1107 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
	Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► User Interfaces (HCI)
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-262-06227-5 / 0262062275
ISBN-13	978-0-262-06227-5 / 9780262062275
Zustand	Neuware