The computer culture reader. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Judd Ethan Ruggill, Ken S. McAllister and Joseph R. Chaney.
• Other Names: Chaney, Joseph R (Joseph Raymond); Ruggill, Judd Ethan; McAllister, Ken S, 1966-
• Contents: More real than real: the un-reality of World of Warcraft / Marlin Bates -- We are blog: implications of viewing the blogosphere as a system / Andrew Chen -- Speech hacks / James Brown -- The personal as public: identity construction/fragmentation online / James Schirmer -- New media objects of WWII: Kenneth Burke's intersection with computer culture / Jason Thompson -- The new literacy challenge: coming to terms with the processes and practices of digitization / Jeff Rutenbeck -- Aesthetic reproduction in Japanese computer culture: the dialectical histories of manga, anime, and computer games / Jennifer deWinter -- Fantasy and finance: play money and computer game culture / Joyce Goggin -- Codifying crime: a hacker's guide to computer culture / Kevin Moberly -- Through an interface darkly: consumer power and agency on the commercial web / Kylie Jarrett -- Death by computer / Marcel O'Gorman -- Dionysius and Savonarola: the historic split in web design / Margaret Batschelet -- The uneasy co-existence of a "culture of ease" and a "culture of dummies" / Mary-Louise Craven -- "Nothing but severed heads in jars": the transhumanist vision and theories of technology / Ron Scott -- Art in the age of cyberia: the obsolescence of the original? / Monica Kjellman-Chapin -- Playing with the past / Nicholas White -- Appendix: Chronology of computer culture / Daniel Griffin.
• Publisher Details: Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 321 pages)
• Subjects: 303.4834; Cultural studies; Computers -- Social aspects; Computers -- Social aspects; COMPUTERS -- Social Aspects -- General; Computers -- Social aspects; Computer; Kultur; Gesellschaft; Ethical & social aspects of IT; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781443806664; 1443806668
• Related ISBNs: 9781847185563; 1847185568
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Print version record.
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