David J. Gunkel

Hacking Cyberspace (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

In Hacking Cyberspace David J. Gunkel examines the metaphors applied to new technologies, and how those metaphors inform, shape, and drive the implementation of the technology in question. The author explores the metaphorical tropes that have been employed to describe and evaluate recent advances in computer technology, telecommunications systems, and interactive media. Taking the stance that no speech is value-neutral, Gunkel examines such metaphors as "the information superhighway" and "the electronic frontier" for their political and social content, and he develops a critical investigation that not only traces the metaphors' conceptual history, but explicates their implications and consequences for technological development. Through Hacking Cyberspace, David J. Gunkel develops a sophisticated understanding of new technology that takes into account the effect of technoculture's own discursive techniques and maneuvers on the actual form of technological development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429968631
• Artikelnr.: 54145833

Autorenporträt

David J Gunkel

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Prolegomena-Hacking Cyberspace
Terra Nova: The New Worlds of Cyberspace
Ars Metaphorica: The Computer as a Device of Commnication
Veritatem Imitari: Virtual Reality and the Deconstruction of the Image
Lingua Ex Machina: Computer-Mediated Communication and the Tower of Babel
Corpus Amittere: Cyberspace and the Body
Ecce Cyborg: The Subject of Communication
Appendix: Deconstruction for Dummies