The Cybercultures Reader brings together key writings in the exciting and interdisciplinary field of cyberculture studies, providing, in one volume, a comprehensive guide to the ways in which new technologies are reshaping cultural forms and practices. This new, updated and thoroughly revised edition of the best-selling The Cybercultures Reader includes a host of contemporary articles following this emerging and developing field. The Reader covers all the main areas of current research. New sections for this edition include: cybercommunities, cyberidentities, cyberlife, and cyberpolitics. With general and thematic section introductions, a full bibliography and a user's guide, this edition is an indispensable resource for all those studying or interested in living with and thinking about new technologies.

Cybercultures rewriter / David Bell; Pt. 1: Approaching cybercultures: Cyberspace: first steps /Michael Benedict -- A cyborg manifesto: science, technology socialist-feminism in the late twentieth century / Donna Haraway -- Space for rent in the last suburb / Scott McQuire -- Cyberspace / Scott Bukatman -- Red alert in cyberspace / Paul Virilio; Pt. 2: Popular cybercultures: From Captain America to Wolverine: cyborgs in comic books: alternative images of cybernetic heroes and villains / Mark Oehlert -- The technophilic body: on technicity in William Gibson's cyborg culture / David Tomas - Deai-Kei: Japan's new culture of encounter / Todd Joseph, Miles Holden, and Takako Tsuruki -- Mapping the bit girl: Lara Croft and new media fandom / Bob Rehak -- From DV realism to a universal recording machine / Lev Manovich; Pt. 3: Cybercommunities: Electronic homesteading on the rural frontier: Big Sky Telegraph and its community / Willard Uncapher -- Community in the abstract: a political and ethical dilemma? / Michele Willson -- Against virtual community: for a politics of distance / Kevin Robins -- Virtual togetherness: an everyday-life perspective / Maria Bakardjieva -- Webs as pegs / David Bell; Pt. 4: Cyberidentities: Identity construction and self-presentation on personal homepages: emancipatory potentials and reality constraints / Charles Cheung -- Prosthetic memory: Total Recall and Blade Runner / Alison Landsberg -- Race in/for cyberspace: identity tourism and racial passing on the Internet / Lisa Nakamura -- Cyberpublics and diaspora politics among transnational Chinese / Aihwa Ong -- Promiscuous fictions / Tyler Curtain; Pt. 5: Cyberfeminisms: On the matrix: cyberfeminist simulations / Sadie Plant -- New sciences: cyborg feminism and the methodology of the oppressed / Chela Sandoval -- Cyberquake: Haraway's manifesto / Zoë Sofoulis -- Feminist AI projects and cyberfutures / Alison Adam; Pt. 6: Cyberbodies: The embodied computer/user / Deborah Lupton - Will the real body please stand up? Boundary stories about virtual cultures / Allucquere Rosanne Stone -- From psycho-body to cyber-systems: images as post-human entities / Stelarc -- Serene and happy and distant: an interview with Orlan / Robert Ayers -- Revenants: death and the digital uncanny / Catherine Waldby; Pt. 7: Cyberlife: The universal robot/ Hans Moravec -- Cyberlife's Creatures / Sarah Kember -- Cyborg babies and cy-dough-plasm: ideas about self and life in the culture of simulation / Sherry Turkle -- Computing the human / N. Katherine Hayles; Pt. 8: Cyberpolitics: Digital networks and the state: some governance questions / Saskia Sassen - Technopower and its cyberfutures / Tim Jordan -- Hackers--cyberpunks or microserfs? / Paul A. Taylor -- Technpolitics and oppositional media / Richard Kahn and Douglas Kellner -- The Internet in the aftermath of the World Trade Center attack / Briavel Holcomb, Philip B. Bakelaar, and Mark Zizzamia; Pt. 9: Beyond cybercultures: Flow, process, fold / Timothy Lenoir and Casey Alt -- Nanotechnology in the age if posthuman engineering: science fiction as science / Colin Milburn -- Gene(sis): contemporary art explores human genomics / Robin Held -- Cyborg urbanization: complexity and monstrosity in the contemporary city / Matthew Gandy -- From cyber to hybrid: mobile technologies as interfaces of hybrid spaces / Adriana de Souza e Silva -- Thinking ontologies of the mind/body relational: fragile faces and fugitive graces in the processuality of creativity and performativity / Barbara M. Kennedy.