Cyberpop: Digital Lifestyles and Commodity Culture High quality books
Cyberpop: Digital Lifestyles and Commodity Culture
By:Sidney Eve Matrix
Published on 2006-05-22 by Routledge
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, The Matrix), popular literature (William Gibson's Neuromancer, Scott Westerfeld's Polymorph), advertising for digital products and services (Apple Computer's '1984/McIntosh' campaign, AT&T's 'mLife' campaign), digital artworks (including virtual females such as Motorola's 'Mya' and Elite Modeling Agency's 'Webbie Tookay,' and work by visual artist Daniel Lee for Microsoft's 'Evolution' campaign), and video games (Tomb Raider). Each close reading illustrates the ways in which representations of digital lifestyles and identities - which typically fetishize computers and celebrate a 'high tech' aesthetic encourage participation in digital capitalism and commodity cyberculture. Matrix argues that popular representations of cyberculture often function as forms of social criticism that creatively inspire audiences to 'think different' (in the words of Mac advertising) about the consequences of the digitalization of everyday life.
This Book was ranked at 16 by Google Books for keyword Commodity.
Book ID of Cyberpop: Digital Lifestyles and Commodity Culture's Books is HaQ6JL5mGxIC, Book which was written bySidney Eve Matrixhave ETAG "81kIsRhVDH8"
Book which was published by Routledge since 2006-05-22 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9781135506643 and ISBN 10 Code is 1135506647
Reading Mode in Text Status is false and Reading Mode in Image Status is true
Book which have "200 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryPerforming Arts
This Book was rated by 1 Raters and have average rate at "5"
This eBook Maturity (Adult Book) status is NOT_MATURE
Book was written in en
eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false
Book Preview
Comments
Post a Comment