The Cultural Imaginary of the Internet
Virtual Utopias and Dystopias| By: | M. Yar |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9781137436689 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781137436696 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2014 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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.