Cyberculture Theorists Manuel Castells and Donna Haraway

This book surveys a ‘cluster’ of works that seek to explore the cultures of cyberspace, the Internet and the information society. It introduces key ideas, and includes detailed discussion of the work of two key thinkers in this area, Manuel Castells and Donna Haraway, as well as outlining the development of cyberculture studies as a field. To do this, the book also explores selected ‘moments’ in this development, from the early 1990s, when cyberspace and cyberculture were only just beginning to come together as ideas, up to the present day, when the field of cyberculture studies has grown and bloomed, producing innovative theoretical and empirical work from a diversity of standpoints. Key topics include: life on the screen network society space of flows cyborg methods. Cyberculture Theorists isthe ideal starting point for anyone wanting to understand how to theorise cyberculture in all its myriad forms.

Series editor’s preface, Acknowledgements, WHY CYBERCULTURE?, MOMENTS IN CYBERCULTURE, WHY CASTELLS?, CASTELLS’ KEY IDEAS, AFTER CASTELLS, WHY HARAWAY?, HARAWAY’S KEY IDEAS, AFTER HARAWAY, AFTER CYBERCULTURE, Further reading, Other works cited, Index

David Bell