An Introduction to New Media and Cybercultures

This introduction to cybercultures provides a cutting-edge and much needed guide to the rapidly changing world of new media and communication. <ul> <li>Considers cyberculture and new media through contemporary race, gender and sexuality studies and postcolonial theory</li> <li>Offers a clear analysis of some of the most complex issues in cybercultures, including identity, network societies, new geographies, and connectivity</li> <li>Includes discussions of gaming, social networking, geography, net-democracy, aesthetics, popular internet culture, the body, sexuality and politics</li> <li>Examines key questions in the political economy, racialization, gendering and governance of cyberculture</li> </ul>