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.
Edited by:
Arthur Kroker,
Marilouise Kroker
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions:
Height: 241mm,
Width: 168mm,
Spine: 32mm
Weight: 900g
ISBN: 9781442614666
ISBN 10: 1442614668
Series: Digital Futures
Pages: 624
Publication Date: 05 November 2013
Audience:
College/higher education
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A / AS level
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Acknowledgments Introduction ARTHUR AND MARILOUISE KROKER CODE BREAKERS Traumas of Code N. KATHERINE HAYLES A Game of Cat’s Cradle: Science Studies, Feminist Theory, Cultural Studies DONNA J. HARAWAY Reframing the Cathedral: Opening the Sources of Technologies and Cultural Assumptions SARA DIAMOND Romancing the Anti-body: Lust and Longing in (Cyber)space LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON NEW DIGITAL MEDIA All Bugs Are Shallow: Digital Biopower, Hacker Resistance, and Technological Error in Open-Source Software MATTHEW KELLY Contagion Theory: Beyond the Microbe TONY D. SAMPSON A Conversation with Spirits inside the Simulation of a Coast Salish Longhouse JACKSON 2BEARS Empire@Play: Virtual Games and Global Capitalism NICK DYER-WITHEFORD AND GREIG DE PEUTER Archaeologies of Media Art JUSSI PARIKKA IN CONVERSATION WITH GARNET HERTZ TECHNOLOGY, IDENTITY, AND SURVEILLANCE Precision + Guided + Seeing JORDAN CRANDALL Understanding Meta-media LEV MANOVICH Black Box, Black Bloc ALEXANDER R. GALLOWAY Biophilosophy for the 21st Century EUGENE THACKER Algebra of Identity: Skin of Wind, Skin of Streams, Skin of Shadows, Skin of Vapour D. FOX HARRELL POLITICS, GENDER, AND RELIGION INFORMATION AND POWER Communication and Imperialism JAMES TULLY Occupology, Swarmology, Whateverology: The City of (Dis)order versus the People’s Archive GREGORY SHOLETTE Tell Us What’s Going to Happen: Information Feeds to the War on Terror SAMUEL NUNN Grammar of Terrorism: Captivity, Media, and a Critique of Biopolitics MICHAEL DARTNELL Virilio’s Apocalypticism MARK FEATHERSTONE GENDER AND SEXUALITY The Cyborg Mother: A Breached Boundary JAIMIE SMITH-WINDSOR Haptics, Mobile Handhelds, and Other ‘Novel’ Devices: The Tactile Unconscious of Reading across Old and New Media RACHEL C. LEE Becoming Dragon: A Transversal Technology Study MICHA CÁRDENAS RELIGION AND SOCIETY Circuits, Death, and Sacred fiction: The City of Banaras MAHESH DAAS Digital Cosmologies: Religion, Technology, and Ideology ARTHUR KROKER Technologies of the Apocalypse: The Left Behind Novels and Flight from the Flesh STEPHEN PFOHL CULTURE, ART, AND COMMUNICATION PERCEPTION The Aura of the Digital MICHAEL BETANCOURT When Taste Politics Meets Terror: The Critical Art Ensemble on Trial JOAN HAWKINS Distraction and Digital Culture WILLIAM BOGARD PERFORMANCE Metal Performance: humanizing Robots, Returning to Nature, and Camping About STEVE DIXON Prosthetic Head: Intelligence, Awareness, and Agency STELARC Simulated Talking Machines: Stelarc’s Prosthetic Head JULIE CLARKE Slipstreaming the Cyborg FRANCESCA DE NICOLÒ IN CONVERSATION WITH CHRISTINA MCPHEE SOUND Black Secret Technology (The Whitey on the Moon Dub) JULIAN JONKER Material Memories: Time and the Cinematic Image PAUL D. MILLER (DJ SPOOKY) The Turntable CHARLES MUDEDE Bibliography Contributors
Author Website:
http://criticaldigitalstudies.net
Arthur Kroker is an emeritus professor and adjunct professor of political science at the University of Victoria. Marilouise Kroker was a feminist scholar, publisher, editor, writer, theorist, and performance artist.
Reviews for Critical Digital Studies: A Reader, Second Edition
""Arthur and Marilouise Kroker have done a superb job in bringing together the most up-to-date and original scholarship in the field which, as theorists, they have helped to shape. This new edition should be required reading for anyone engaged in digital media research and/or new forms of creative digital practice."" --Janine Marchessault, Canada Research Chair in Art, Digital Media and Globalization, York University ""The Krokers are more than experts on questions of digital culture; they are leaders in the field who bring an essential, innovative, and irreplaceable perspective to literature in the area."" --Ted Hiebert, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington, Bothell ""Critical Digital Studies offers sound and well-supported research at the very edge of critical reflection. Arthur and Marilouise Kroker's anthology keeps up with the speed economies of networks not from within the wave but where the waves crash and even at times outruns them.""--Ricardo Dominguez, Electronic Disturbance Theater
