This book provides critical analysis and aesthetic interpretations of exactly those visual elements that define cyberpunk today, moving beyond the limitations of text to also focus on the meaningfulness of images, forms, and compositions that are the heart and lifeblood of cyberpunk graphic novels, ..
This book provides critical analysis and aesthetic interpretations of exactly those visual elements that define cyberpunk today, moving beyond the limitations of text to also focus on the meaningfulness of images, forms, and compositions that are the heart and lifeblood of cyberpunk graphic novels, ..
This collection features all new essays that explore how modern warfare has been represented in and influenced by video games. The contributors explore the history and political economy of video games and the "military-entertainment complex;" present textual analyses of military-themed video games s..
This volume provides an innovative and timely approach to a fast growing, yet still under-studied field in Latin American cultural production: online digital culture. It focuses on the transformations or continuations that cultural products and practices such as hypermedia fictions, net.art and onli..
This volume provides an innovative and timely approach to a fast growing, yet still under-studied field in Latin American cultural production: online digital culture. It focuses on the transformations or continuations that cultural products and practices such as hypermedia fictions, net.art and onli..
The Virtual Embodied is intended to inform and provoke. It juxtaposes cutting-edge theories, polemics and creative practices to uncover the implications of why, how and where human actions, observations and insights take place...
This book avoids wrestling with the common question of whether the virtual violation of real-world taboos is right or wrong, and instead provides a theoretical framework that helps us understand why such distinctions are typically made, and explores the psychological impact of violating offline tabo..
This book avoids wrestling with the common question of whether the virtual violation of real-world taboos is right or wrong, and instead provides a theoretical framework that helps us understand why such distinctions are typically made, and explores the psychological impact of violating offline tabo..
This book offers a balanced view of the internet by presenting empirical data conducted by social scientists. It is the first book to develop a coherent model of the truth-lies paradox, with specific reference to the critical role of trust...