The Cultural Imaginary of the Internet Virtual Utopias and Dystopias
Description
Contemporary culture offer contradictory views of the internet and new media technologies, painting them in extremes of optimistic enthusiasm and pessimistic concern. This book explores such representations, uncovering the roots of our cultural responses to the internet, centred upon a profoundly ambivalent reaction to technological modernity.
Keywords
Social ScienceSociologyCriminologyMedia StudiesRegional StudiesAnthropologyCultural & SocialLanguage Arts & DisciplinesCommunication Studies
2014Book
Author(s)Majid Yar
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9781137436689
LanguageEnglish
