Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/23938
- Title
- Memory trade : a prehistory of cyberculture
- Author(s)
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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 externsion, rather than innovation, of human engagement with communication and information technologies.
- Publication type
- Book
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
- Publication year
- 1998
- Keyword(s)
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Computers;
Contemporary culture;
Cyberculture;
Society;
Technology
- Publisher
- Interface
- ISBN
- 9057041812
- Copyright
- Copyright © Interface 1998.
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