Critical Digital Studies: A Reader (Digital Futures): A Reader, Second Edition - Hardcover

Arthur Kroker; Marilouise Kroker

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1442646845 ISBN 13: 9781442646841

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2013

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Arthur Kroker is the director of the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture, and Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture, and Theory at the University of Victoria. Marilouise Kroker is a senior research scholar in the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture at the University of Victoria.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1442646845
• ISBN 13: 9781442646841
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 624