Living with Cyberspace Technology and Society in the 21st Century

Description

Cyberspace and cybertechnology have impacted on every aspect of our lives. Western society, culture, politics and economics are now all intricately bound with cyberspace. Living With Cyberspace brings together the leading cyber-theorists of North America, Britain and Australia to map the present and the future of cyberspace.Presenting a guidebook to our new world, both the theory and the practice, the book covers subjects as diverse as androids, biotech, electronic commerce, the acceleration of everyday life, access to information, the alliance between the military and the entertainment industries, feminism, democratic practice and human consciousness itself.Together, the essays--divided into separately introduced sections on society , culture, politics and economics--present a systematic and state-of-the-art overview of technology and society in the 21st Century.Contributors: John Armitage, Verena Andermatt Conley, James Der Derian, William H. Dutton, Phil Graham, Tim Jordan, Wan-Ying Ling, David Lyon, Ian Miles, Joanne Roberts, Saskia Sassen, Cathryn Vasseleu, McKenzie Wark, Frank Webster.

Table of Contents

Part I: Cyber Society
Introduction
1. Cyberspace: Beyond the Information Society, David Lyon, Queen's University, Canada
2. Cybernetic Life: Limits to Choice, Frank Webster, University of Birmingham
3. Chronotopia, John Armitage and Joanne Roberts, University of Northumbria at Newcastle
Part II: Cyber Culture
Introduction
4. Cyberspace as Battlespace: The New Virtual Alliance of the Military, the Media and the Entertainment Industry, James Der Derian, Brown University
5. Codework: From Cyberspace fo Biospace, from Neuromancer to GATTACA, McKenzie Wark, SUNY Binghampton
6. A is for Animatics (Automata, Androids and Animals), Cathryn Vasseleu, University of Technology, Sydney
Part III: Cyber Politics
7. E-Democracy: A Case Study of Web-Orchestrated Cyberadvocacy, William H. Dutton and Wan-Ying Ling, University of Southern California
8. Mediating Practices: Women With/In Cyberspace, Saskia Sassen, University of Chicago/LSE
9. Technopower and its Cyberfutures, Tim Jordan, Open University
Part IV: Cyber Economics
Introduction
10. Towards the Cybereconomy: Making a Business Out of Cyberspace, Ian Miles, University of Manchester
11. Women-Cybercitizens, Verena Andermatt Conley, Harvard University
12. Space and Cyberspace: On the Enclosure of Consciousness, Phil Graham, University of Queensland
Suggestion for Further Reading
Notes on Contributors
Index

Author(s)

John Armitage, John Armitage is Head of Multidisciplinary Studies at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Joanne Roberts, John Armitage is Head of Multidisciplinary Studies at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Joanne Roberts is Lecturer in International Business at the University of Durham.