| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Series |
Critical issues. The cyber hub |
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Critical issues (Oxford, England). Cyber hub.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Storytelling in cyberspaces / Adam L. Brackin and Natacha Guyot -- Part 1. Post-humanism. The era of homo cyborg: philosophical aspects of creating enhanced 'human' beings / Ivana Greguric -- Posthuman 'visions' and the (un)seeing of class / Rob Wilkie -- Posthumanist feminism and the embodiment of class / Jennifer Cotter -- Melancholia and posthumanist metaphysics / Kimberly DeFazio -- A visual semiotic web-text and the viral video: scream and shout / Raffaella Scelzi -- Britney Spears' 'Scream and shout': between rejected reality and possible imaginations / Giorgio Borrelli -- Part 2. Cultures in cyberspace. Adding art to artifice in cyber conversations / Barry Natusch -- The fragile monster or the resurrection of humanity: the cyborg as the mirrored representation of human physical and intellectual desire / Judith Rahn -- To beseech the mods: democratic participation in unequal spaces / Michael Burnam-Fink -- What lies beyond The matrix? Transmogrification of a traditional Chinese technology / Petra Rehling -- Queering cyberspace in New Delhi: negotiating femininity, masculinity and thirdness / Janina Geist -- Cyborgs and consoles: gender performativity and the liberatory potential of video games / Jacqueline Marie Potvin -- Part 3. New narrativism. The representations of cyborgs in science fiction film: vision, the body, gender and technology / Elle-Sandrah Rheeder -- Ficto-personal communication: defining relationship-based communication with fictional characters / Adam L. Brackin -- Structuring digital exhibition contents in the multi-touch environment / Jaroslav Vancat and Daniel Riha -- Episodic gaming: interactive narrative and immersive development / Richard Wirth -- Cyberpunk goes East: challenging the Western culture in contemporary science fiction / Krzysztof Solarewicz -- Strange technology: fictocriticism and the cyborg / Michaela Atienza -- Virtual trauma and simulation: cybernetic performance in Wafaa Bilal's A night of bush capturing: the virtual jihadi / Jenna Ann Altomonte |
| Notes |
The papers in this volume were presented at a conference held in Oxford, U.K. in 2013 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Cyberspace -- Social aspects -- Congresses
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Cyborgs -- Social aspects -- Congresses
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Science fiction -- Social aspects -- Congresses
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Computers and civilization -- Congresses
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Computers and civilization
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Cyberspace -- Social aspects
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Science fiction -- Social aspects
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brackin, Adam L., editor, author
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Guyot, Natacha, editor
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| ISBN |
1848882718 |
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9781848882713 |
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