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

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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Main Author: Hakken, David
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, [1999]
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:0203900553
9780203900550
9780415915588
0415915589
9780415915595
0415915597
9781135964122
1135964122
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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.