High Noon on the Electronic Frontier
Title | High Noon on the Electronic Frontier PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Ludlow |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 564 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 9780262621038 |
This collection of articles on cyberspace policy issues, has been collated from print and electronic sources, together with extracts from on-line discussions of these issues. The topics covered include privacy, property rights, hacking, encryption, censors
Cyberpl@y
Title | Cyberpl@y PDF eBook |
Author | Brenda Danet |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 2020-05-28 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1000184102 |
The Internet is changing the way we communicate. As a cross between letter-writing and conversation, email has altered traditional letter-writing conventions. Websites and chat rooms have made visual aspects of written communication of greater importance, arguably, than ever before. New communication codes continue to evolve with unprecedented speed. This book explores playfulness and artfulness in digital writing and communication and anwers penetrating questions about this new medium. Under what conditions do old letter-writing norms continue to be important, even in email? Digital greetings are changing the way we celebrate special occasions and public holidays, but will they take the place of paper postcards and greeting cards? The author also looks at how new art forms, such as virtual theatre, ASCII art, and digital folk art on IRC, are flourishing, and how many people collect and display digital fonts on handsome Websites, or even design their own. Intended as a time capsule documenting developments online in the mid- to late 1990s, when the Internet became a mass medium, this book treats the computer as an expressive instrument fostering new forms of creativity and popular culture.
Cyberculture
Title | Cyberculture PDF eBook |
Author | David Bell |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Computers and civilization |
ISBN | 9780415247542 |
A wide-ranging and up-to-date overview of the fast-changing world of cyberculture.
Godwired
Title | Godwired PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel Wagner |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 2012-03-12 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1136512136 |
Godwired offers an engaging exploration of religious practice in the digital age. It considers how virtual experiences, like stories, games and rituals, are forms of world-building or "cosmos construction" that serve as a means of making sense of our own world. Such creative and interactive activity is, arguably, patently religious. This book examines: the nature of sacred space in virtual contexts technology as a vehicle for sacred texts who we are when we go online what rituals have in common with games and how they work online what happens to community when people worship online how religious "worlds" and virtual "worlds" nurture similar desires. Rachel Wagner suggests that whilst our engagement with virtual reality can be viewed as a form of religious activity, today’s virtual religion marks a radical departure from traditional religious practice – it is ephemeral, transient, rapid, disposable, hyper-individualized, hybrid, and in an ongoing state of flux.
Digital Diaspora
Title | Digital Diaspora PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Everett |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2009-02-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780791476741 |
Traces the rise of black participation in cyberspace.
net.wars
Title | net.wars PDF eBook |
Author | Wendy Grossman |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2019-09-01 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1479802034 |
Assesses the battles over Internet regulation that will define the venue's future Who will rule cyberspace? And why should people care? Recently stories have appeared in a variety of news media, from the sensational to the staid, that portray the Internet as full of pornography, pedophilia, recipes for making bombs, lewd and lawless behavior, and copyright violators. And, for politicians eager for votes, or to people who have never strolled the electronic byways, regulating the Net seems as logical and sensible as making your kids wear seat belts. Forget freedom of speech: children can read this stuff. From the point of view of those on the Net, mass-media's representation of pornography on the Internet grossly overestimates the amount that is actually available, and these stories are based on studies that are at best flawed and at worst fraudulent. To netizens, the panic over the electronic availability of bomb-making recipes and other potentially dangerous material is groundless: the same material is readily available in public libraries. Out on the Net, it seems outrageous that people who have never really experienced it are in a position to regulate it. How then, should the lines be drawn in the grey area between cyberspace and the physical world? In net.wars, Wendy Grossman, a journalist who has covered the Net since 1992 for major publications such as Wired, The Guardian, and The Telegraph, assesses the battles that will define the future of this new venue. From the Church of Scientology's raids on Net users to netizens attempts to overthrow both the Communications Decency Act and the restrictions on the export of strong encryption, net.wars explains the issues and the background behind the headlines. Among the issues covered are net scams, class divisions on the net, privacy issues, the Communications Decency Act, women online, pornography, hackers and the computer underground, net criminals and sociopaths, and more. Full text online version at www.nyupress.org/netwars.
Critical Pedagogy in the Twenty-First Century
Title | Critical Pedagogy in the Twenty-First Century PDF eBook |
Author | Curry Malott |
Publisher | IAP |
Pages | 619 |
Release | 2011-03-01 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1617353329 |
This book simultaneously provides multiple analyses of critical pedagogy in the twenty-first century while showcasing the scholarship of this new generation of critical scholar-educators. Needless to say, the writers herein represent just a small subset of a much larger movement for critical transformation and a more humane, less Eurocentric, less paternalistic, less homophobic, less patriarchical, less exploitative, and less violent world. This volume highlights the finding that rigorous critical pedagogical approaches to education, while still marginalized in many contexts, are being used in increasingly more classrooms for the benefit of student learning, contributing, however indirectly, to the larger struggle against the barbarism of industrial, neoliberal, militarized destructiveness. The challenge for critical pedagogy in the twenty-first century, from this point of view, includes contributing to the manifestation of a truly global critical pedagogy that is epistemologically democratic and against human suffering and capitalist exploitation. These rigorous, democratic, critical standards for measuring the value of our scholarship, including this volume of essays, should be the same that we use to critique and transform the larger society in which we live and work.