The New Media and Technocultures Reader

The study of new media has, over the past decade or so, developed within a wide range of academic disciplines and theoretical paradigms. It has generated a great deal of excitement, hype, and confusion. "The New Media & Technocultures Reader" presents key texts which encapsulate and/or challenge and extend, the issues, debates and theoretical positions that do the most work in mapping and critically addressing the cultural implications of new media. "The New Media & Technoculture Reader" will offer students further reading on key issues and debates raised in the introductory textbook "New Media: A Critical Introduction", and explication of these debates through the selected texts. It will critically and theoretically contextualise the various disciplinary stances (visual culture; media and cultural history; media theory; media production; philosophy and the history of the sciences; and, political economy and sociology, etc.), offering students a rich and interdisciplinary resource. Critical editorial commentary will guide the reader through the debates, and between the extracts.