Cyborgs@cyberspace? : an ethnographer looks to the future /

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Cyborgs@Cyberspace? is a compelling and innovative analysis of technology from a cultural perspective. It turns an anthropological eye on the growing phenomenon of cyberspace to address some of the pressing questions of the Computer Age: How significant are the social practices which emerge from our...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hakken, David
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Routledge, [1999]
Subjects:
Computers and civilization.
Computers > Social aspects.
Cyberspace.
Ordinateurs et civilisation.
Ordinateurs > Aspect social.
Cyberespace.
cyberspace.
COMPUTERS > Social Aspects > General.
Electronic books.
Instructional and educational works.
Matériel d'éducation et de formation.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • An alternative to "computer revolution" thought
  • Doing ethnography in cyberspace
  • The entity problem : what carries culture in cyberspace?
  • The ethnography of mid-range social relations in cyberspace : community, region, organization, and civil society
  • Macro-social relations and structure in cyberspace
  • Knowledge in cyberspace and the practice of ethnography
  • Conclusions.

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