The Cultural Imaginary of the Internet: Virtual Utopias and Dystopias

by Majid Yar

Book Overview

Contemporary culture offer contradictory views of the internet and new media technologies, painting them in extremes of optimistic enthusiasm and pessimistic foreboding. While some view them as a repository of hopes for democracy, freedom and self-realisation, others consider these developments as sources of alienation, dehumanisation and danger. This book explores such representations, and situates them within the traditions of utopian and dystopian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137436689
• ISBN13: 9781137436689
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"