Cyberculture and New Media

Francisco J. Ricardo is Research Associate at the University Professors Program and co-director of the Digital Video Research Archive at Boston University, and teaches digital media theory at the Rhode Island School of Design. He has degrees from Harvard University and Boston University. His research examines historical, conceptual, and computational intersections between contemporary and new media art.

"They essays collected in Cyberculture and New Media, speak to a cyberculture constantly supplanted by technological innovation and a restless adaptation, substitution, and convergence of art, craft, and language. The collection seeks to facilitate interdisciplinary projects and inquiry that are innovative, imaginative, and creatively interactive." - John F. Barber, Washington State University Vancouver

• Preface: ‘Until Something Else’ – A Theoretical IntroductionPART 1 The EmpiricalFrancisco J. RICARDO: Formalisms of Digital Text Sheizaf RAFAELI, Tsahi HAYAT, Yaron ARIEL: Knowledge Building and Motivations in Wikipedia: Participation as “Ba”Mahmoud EID: On the Way to the Cyber-Arab-Culture: International Communication, Telecommunications Policies, and DemocracyRita ZALTSMAN: The Challenge of Intercultural Electronic Learning: English as Lingua FrancaPART 2 The AestheticNicole RIDGWAY and Nathaniel STERN: The Implicit Body Leman GIRESUNLU: Cyborg Goddesses: the Mainframe Revisited Maria BÄCKE: De-Colonizing Cyberspace: Post-Colonial Strategies in CyberfictionTony RICHARDS: The Différance Engine: Videogames as Deconstructive SpacetimeAlev ADIL and Steve KENNEDY: Technology on Screen: Projections, Paranoia and Discursive practiceSeppo KUIVAKARI: Desistant Media List of Contributors Index