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Technospaces Sally R. Munt

Technospaces By Sally R. Munt

Technospaces by Sally R. Munt


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Summary

Science and technology have a profound effect on the way humans perceive space and time. In this work, an international team of authors explores themes of depth and surface, of real and conceptual space, and of human/machine interaction.

Technospaces Summary

Technospaces by Sally R. Munt

Science and technology have had a profound effect on the way humans perceive space and time. In this book an international team of authors explore themes of depth and surface, of real and conceptual space and of human/machine interaction. The collection is organized around the concept of Technospace - the temporal realm where technology meets human practice. In exploring this intersection the contributors initiate debate on a number of important conceptual questions: is there a clear distinction between the real space of the body or with city and the conceptual space of virtual reality?; how are the real and metaphorical space of electronic cultures quantified and regulated?; and is there an ethics of technospace? Historically the reception of new technologies has been invested with romantic idealism on the one hand and panic on the other. The authors argue that in order for utopian dreams to be tempered by ethical, humanistic needs, we have an urgent need to reveal, reflect upon and evaluate technospace and our relationship to it.

About Sally R. Munt

Sally R. Munt is a reader in Media Representation and Analysis at the University of Brighton. She has published in the area of cultural studies, feminist theory, and lesbian and gay studies.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Spatial modelling - critical paradigms in new media technologies: depth technologies, Judith Roof; cinema and computers - spatial practices within emergent visual technologies, Per Persson; the space of information - digital media as simulation of the analogical mind, Peter Dallow; cyborgs and cyberspace - personal identity and moral agency, Danford Horner; keeping an eye on them - control and vision, Rosa Ainley; the fortress and the polis - from postmodern city to cyberspace and back, Paula Geyh; studying feminist e-spaces - introducing transnational/postcolonial concerns, Radhika Gajjala. Part 2 Smart spaces - strategies and tactics in new media technologies: smart spaces @ the final frontier, Zoe Sofoulis; virtually out there -strategies, tactics and affective spaces in on-line fandom, Matthew Hills; fresh kill - information technologies as sites of resistance, Aylish Wood; revolting bodies - the resignification of fat in cyberspace, Katie LeBesco; the projection of geographical communities into cyberspace, Duncan Sanderson and Andree Fortin; in the company of strangers - mobile phones and the conception of space, Sussex Technology Group; playing with Lara in virtual space, Kate O'Riordan; personal stereo use and the aural reconfiguration of representational space, Michael Bull.

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GOR012429404
9780826450036
0826450032
Technospaces by Sally R. Munt
Used - Well Read
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
20010531
256
N/A
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