Cyberculture now : : social and communication behaviours on the Web / / edited by Anna Maj.

• Superior document: Critical Issues
• TeilnehmendeR: Maj, Anna,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford, United Kingdom : : Inter-Disciplinary Press,, [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Critical issues (Oxford, England)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

At present cyberculture is a dominating cultural paradigm and nothing seems to be able to replace it. We globally share the same cyberspace but there is a question whether we all together–the whole humankind–are really living in the same cyberculture? This book proves that we rather tend to define the contemporary state of culture as cybercultures. The process of spreading technologies, trends and ideas is not the same in all parts of the world. The varying speeds of this process and cultural diversity of its forms are created by different social, political, economic and cultural contexts. By representing different perspectives the authors depict a wide spectrum of the most important current problems connected with networked life, global sharing of data, loss of privacy, new meanings of community and developments in narrative structures and social behaviours arising from new communication possibilities, instantaneity of information and global viral sensitivity.

Table of Contents

Preliminary material -- Initial Steps towards a Theory of Cyberspace / Harris Breslow -- Noosphere Reframed: Communication and Cybersociety in the Times of Sentient City, Blogjects and Ubicomp Paradigm -- Accelerating the Human: The Cybercultural Origins of the ‘Technological Singularity’ / Artur Matos Alves -- Gold Rush 2.0? Crowdsourcing in Social Media Networks / Sabine Baumann -- Anti-Social e-Tribes: E-Gangs, Cybercultures and Control in Online Communities / Robert Rogerson , Sue Sadler , Eleni Karagiannidou , Sallyanne Duncan , Ian Ruthven and Stephen Tagg -- What is Mine is Yours: An Exploratory Study of Online Personal Privacy in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam / Patrick E. Sharbaugh -- Is Cyberculture Developing in Qatar? / Susan Dun , Md. Rezwan and Al-Islam -- Australia’s Rural Youth, Online Storytelling and Identity Performance / Sasha Mackay -- Malaysian Christians Online: Online/Offline Interactions and Integration / Meng Yoe Tan -- Computers, Social Science and the Cambridge Project / Chris Fletcher -- Aporias of the Internet Art: Cybercultural Utopias 20 Years Later / Ewa Wójtowicz -- Applying Visual Communication Design Principles on e-Government Websites for Effective Communication / Suat Anar and Cengiz Erdal -- Technological Heritage Preservation in Cyberculture Learning Fibre Art in Virtual Communities / Alexandra-Andreea Rusu -- A Shift of Cultural Practices: How Teachers Teach and Learners Learn Online? / Kwok-Wing Lai.