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- Title
- Memory trade: a prehistory of cyberculture
- Author(s)
- Tofts, Darren; McKeich, Murray
- Abstract
- The notion of 'culture' is changing at the speed of information itself. Computer technology is creating a new kind of public, a cyberculture with all its utopian and apocalyptic possibilities. But is it that new? Popular debate generally ignores cyberculture's historical context. The official history begins in the 19th century and tracks the evolution of telecommunications, the egalitarian dream of the global village, and the emergence of the military-industrial complex. However this omits the deeper, prehistory of technological transformations of culture that are everywhere felt but nowhere seen in the telematic landscape of the late-twentieth century. Cyberculture is an extension, rather than innovation, of human engagement with communication and information technologies.
- Publication type
- Book
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology
- Source
- Memory trade: a prehistory of cyberculture / Darren Tofts and Murray McKeich, 13th anniversary reprint (2011)
- Publication year
- 2011
- Keyword(s)
- Computers; Contemporary culture; Cyberculture; Society; Technology
- Publisher
- G & B Arts International
- ISBN
- 9780987177209
- Publisher URL
- http://www.21cmagazine.com/#2582764/Darren-Tofts-Memory-Trade
- Copyright
- Text copyright © Darren Tofts 1997, 2011. Illustrations copyright © 1997, 2011 Murray McKeich. Memory trade: a prehistory of cyberculture by Darren Tofts and Murray McKeich is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). The published version of the paper is reproduced here in accordance with this policy.
- Additional information
- This work is a 13th anniversary reprint of 'Memory trade: a prehistory of cyberculture', a book originally published by Darren Tofts and Murray McKeich in 1998. Details of the previous edition are available here: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/23938.
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