Cyberpop: Digital Lifestyles and Commodity Culture

by Sidney E. Matrix and Sidney Eve Matrix

Book Overview

Cyberpop is an analysis of cyberculture and its popular cultural productions. The study begins with a Foucaultian model of cyberculture as a discursive formation, and explains how some key concepts (such as 'virtuality, ' 'speed, ' and 'Connectivity') operate as a conceptual architecture network linking technologies to information and individual subjects. The chapters then each focus on a particular cyberfiguration, including Hollywood films (GATTACA,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415976774
• ISBN13: 9780415976770
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.0"