Digital Humanities and the Cyberspace Decade, 1990-2001

A World Elsewhere

AvClaire Warwick,Anthony Mandal

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Setting out a history of cyberspace and its relationship with the discipline that was to become digital humanities, this book is an account of an often-forgotten period of internet history in the 1990s when this medium was in its infancy. It provides a detailed account of the concepts of ‘cyberspace’ and the ‘virtual’, which were characteristic of a perception that using the internet allowed users to enter a separate space from everyday life- a world elsewhere. In doing so, it argues that this libertarian idea of the internet framed it as a new frontier, where the rules of the everyday world did not and should not apply, and where the individual could find freedom. These early norms and the regrettable lack of regulation that was a consequence of them, this book argues, contributed to many of current issues with internet media. including of toxic communication, disinformation and over-commercialisation

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-10-31
Mått:162 x 236 x 20 mm
Vikt:520 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350452794

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Claire Warwick is a Professor of Digital Humanities in the Department of English at Durham University, UK.

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An important contribution [that] effectively historicizes the transition from the decade of the 1990s, when internet culture was a novelty to some, through the present moment, when things are quite otherwise.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction: There is a world elsewhere….2. A consensual hallucination- imagining cyberspace3. Virtual communities: cyberspace before the web4. Wired Women: from a bird on the list to a rape in cyberspace5. A design for life: building digital identity on the World Wide Web6. Online everything: cyberspace and the Triumph of virtuality7. ‘Ceci Tuera Cela’: digital textuality and the death of the book8. Cyber libertarians: freedom on the electronic frontier9. ‘Not welcome among us’: democracy and the governance of cyberspace10. Conclusion: the reality of cyberspaceBibliography