Theorizing digital cultures /

Bollmer, Grant,

Theorizing digital cultures / Grant Bollmer. - Los Angeles : SAGE, 2018. - 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-243) and index.

Introduction: Why theorize digital cultures? -- Part I: Defining digital cultures: What are digital cultures? -- Culture and technique -- Digital and analogue. -- Part II: Histories, concepts, and debates: Cybernetics and posthumanism -- Identities and performances -- Bodies and extensions -- Aesthetics and affects -- Forms and judgements -- Infrastructures and ecologies. -- Afterword: What comes after digital cultures?

The rapid development of digital technologies continues to have far reaching effects on our daily lives. This book explains how digital media--in providing the material and infrastructure for a host of practices and interactions--affect identities, bodies, social relations, artistic practices, and the environment.--

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Information society--Social aspects.
Information technology--Social aspects.
Digital media--Social aspects.
Digital media--Social aspects.
Information society--Social aspects.

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