Human No More : Digital Subjectivities, Unhuman Subjects, and the End of Anthropology /

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Turning an anthropological eye toward cyberspace, Human No More explores how conditions of the online world shape identity, place, culture, and death within virtual communities. Online worlds have recently thrown into question the traditional anthropological conception of place-based ethnography. Th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Wesch, Michael (Editor ), Whitehead, Neil L. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Virtual reality.
Online social networks.
Cybernetics > Philosophy.
Computers and civilization.
Anthropology > Philosophy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
COMPUTERS > Social Aspects > General.
virtual reality.
Realite virtuelle.
Ordinateurs et civilisation.
Reseaux sociaux (Internet)
Cybernetique > Philosophie.
Anthropologie > Philosophie.
Virtual Reality
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Turning an anthropological eye toward cyberspace, Human No More explores how conditions of the online world shape identity, place, culture, and death within virtual communities. Online worlds have recently thrown into question the traditional anthropological conception of place-based ethnography. They break definitions, blur distinctions, and force us to rethink the notion of the "subject." Human No More asks how digital cultures can be integrated and how the ethnography of both the "unhuman" and the "digital" could lead to possible reconfiguring the notion of the "human." This provocative.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (264 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781607321705

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