Critical Digital Studies : : A Reader, Second Edition / / ed. by Arthur Kroker, Marilouise Kroker.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bears, Jackson,; Betancourt, Michael,; Bogard, William,; Clarke, Julie,; Crandall, Jordan,; Cárdenas, Micha,; Daas, Mahesh,; Dartnell, Michael,; De Nicolò, Francesca,; De Peuter, Greig,; Diamond, Sara,; Dixon, Steve,; Dyer-Witheford, Nick,; Featherstone, Mark,; Galloway, Alexander R.,; Haraway, Donna J.,; Harrell, D. Fox,; Hawkins, Joan,; Hayles, N. Katherine,; Hershman Leeson, Lynn,; Hertz, Garnet,; Jonker, Julian,; Kelly, Matthew,; Kroker, Arthur,; Kroker, Marilouise,; Lee, Rachel C.,; Manovich, Lev,; Mcphee, Christina,; Miller, Paul D.,; Mudede, Charles,; Nunn, Samuel,; Parikka, Jussi,; Pfohl, Stephen,; Sampson, Tony D.,; Sholette, Gregory,; Smith-Windsor, Jaimie,; Stelarc,,; Thacker, Eugene,; Tully, James,
• HerausgeberIn: Kroker, Arthur,; Kroker, Marilouise ,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (624 p.)

Since its initial publication, Critical Digital Studies has proven an indispensable guide to understanding digitally mediated culture. Bringing together the leading scholars in this growing field, internationally renowned scholars Arthur and Marilouise Kroker present an innovative and interdisciplinary survey of the relationship between humanity and technology. The reader offers a study of our digital future, a means of understanding the world with new analytic tools and means of communication that are defining the twenty-first century.The second edition includes new essays on the impact of social networking technologies and new media. A new section – “New Digital Media” – presents important, new articles on topics including hacktivism in the age of digital power and the relationship between gaming and capitalism. The extraordinary range and depth of the first edition has been maintained in this new edition. Critical Digital Studies will continue to provide the leading edge to readers wanting to understand the complex intersection of digital culture and human knowledge.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- Introduction -- CODE BREAKERS -- 1 Traumas of Code -- 2 A Game of Cat’s Cradle: Science Studies, Feminist Theory, Cultural Studies -- 3 Reframing the Cathedral: Opening the Sources of Technologies and Cultural Assumptions -- 4 Romancing the Anti-body: Lust and Longing in (Cyber)space -- NEW DIGITAL MEDIA -- 5 All Bugs Are Shallow: Digital Biopower, Hacker Resistance, and Technological Error in Open-Source Software -- 6 Contagion Theory: Beyond the Microbe -- 7 A Conversation with Spirits inside the Simulation of a Coast Salish Longhouse -- 8 Empire@Play: Virtual Games and Global Capitalism -- 9 Archaeologies of Media Art -- TECHNOLOGY, IDENTITY, AND SURVEILLANCE -- 10 Precision + Guided + Seeing -- 11 Understanding Meta-media -- 12 Black Box, Black Bloc -- 13 Biophilosophy for the 21st Century -- 14 Algebra of Identity: Skin of Wind, Skin of Streams, Skin of Shadows, Skin of Vapour -- POLITICS, GENDER, AND RELIGION -- INFORMATION AND POWER -- 15 Communication and Imperialism -- 16 Occupology, Swarmology, Whateverology: The City of (Dis)order versus the People’s Archive -- 17 Tell Us What’s Going to Happen: Information Feeds to the War on Terror -- 18 Grammar of Terrorism: Captivity, Media, and a Critique of Biopolitics -- 19 Virilio’s Apocalypticism -- GENDER AND SEXUALITY -- 20 The Cyborg Mother: A Breached Boundary -- 21 Haptics, Mobile Handhelds, and other ‘Novel’ Devices: The Tactile Unconscious of Reading across Old and New Media -- 22 Becoming Dragon: A Transversal Technology Study -- RELIGION AND SOCIETY -- 23 Circuits, Death, and Sacred Fiction: The City of Banaras -- 24 Digital Cosmologies: Religion, Technology, and Ideology -- 25 Technologies of the Apocalypse: The Left Behind Novels and Flight from the Flesh -- CULTURE, ART, AND COMMUNICATION -- PERCEPTION -- 26 The Aura of the Digital -- 27 When Taste Politics Meets Terror: The Critical Art Ensemble on Trial -- 28 Distraction and Digital Culture -- PERFORMANCE -- 29 Metal Performance: Humanizing Robots, Returning to Nature, and Camping About -- 30 Prosthetic Head: Intelligence, Awareness, and Agency -- 31 Simulated Talking Machines: Stelarc’s Prosthetic Head -- 32 Slipstreaming the Cyborg -- SOUND -- 33 Black Secret Technology (The Whitey on the Moon Dub) -- 34 Material Memories: Time and the Cinematic Image -- 35 The Turntable -- Bibliography -- Contributors