E-Book, Englisch, 114 Seiten
Yar The Cultural Imaginary of the Internet
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-43669-6
Verlag: Palgrave Pivot
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Virtual Utopias and Dystopias
E-Book, Englisch, 114 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-137-43669-6
Verlag: Palgrave Pivot
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Contemporary culture offer contradictory views of the internet and new media technologies, painting them in extremes of optimistic enthusiasm and pessimistic concern. This book explores such representations, uncovering the roots of our cultural responses to the internet, centred upon a profoundly ambivalent reaction to technological modernity.
Majid Yar is Professor of Sociology at the University of Hull, UK. He has researched and published widely in the areas of crime & deviance studies, media & popular culture, and social & criminological theory.




