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The cultural imaginary of the internet : = virtual utopias and dystopias /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The cultural imaginary of the internet :/ Majid Yar.
Reminder of title:	virtual utopias and dystopias /
Author:	Yar, Majid,
Description:	1 online resource.
Subject:	Dystopias. -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137436696
ISBN:	1137436697 (electronic bk.)

The cultural imaginary of the internet : = virtual utopias and dystopias /
Yar, Majid,

The cultural imaginary of the internet :virtual utopias and dystopias /Majid Yar. - 1 online resource.

1. Unravelling Utopias and Dystopias -- 2. The Techno-Scientific Utopias of Modernity: From Real to Virtual -- 3. Virtual Utopias and the Imaginary of the Internet -- 4. The Dystopian Worlds of Techno-Science -- 5. Virtual Dystopias and the Imaginary of the Internet -- 6. Beyond Virtual Utopias and Dystopias?

Contemporary culture offer contradictory views of the internet and new media technologies, painting them in extremes of optimistic enthusiasm and pessimistic foreboding. While some view them as a repository of hopes for democracy, freedom and self-realisation, others consider these developments as sources of alienation, dehumanisation and danger. This book explores such representations, and situates them within the traditions of utopian and dystopian thought that have shaped the Western cultural imaginary. Ranging from ancient poetry to post-humanism, and classical sociology to science fiction, it uncovers the roots of our cultural responses to the internet, which are centred upon a profoundly ambivalent reaction to technological modernity. Majid Yar argues that it is only by better understanding our society's reactions to technological innovation that we can develop a balanced and considered response to the changes and challenges that the internet brings in its wake.

ISBN: 1137436697 (electronic bk.)

Source: 765712Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

648826
Dystopias.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HM851

Dewey Class. No.: 302.23/1

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