Critical Digital Studies: A Reader
Conceived as a global network for digital studies, Critical Digital Studies: A Reader represents a new style of thought directly emergent from net culture itself. Inspired by the same digital spirit that gave rise to the Open Architecture Movement, Shareware, and Web 2.0, Critical Digital Studies may be visualized as a creative mashup -- a method of critical digital studies which creatively mixes the very traditional human demand to understand the world in which we live with new ways of analyzing, relating, communicating, and living that is digital reality today.
Representing many of the world's leading digital theorists, Critical Digital Studies links the digital future to the question of knowledge. Here, digital knowledge -- knowledge of surveillance strategies, meta-media, advanced cyber-warfare, bio-philosophy, information technology, gendered information, peer production, "cyborg mothers" and "biophilosophies" -- is placed in the service of a digital culture that is struggling to be born, survive and flourish.
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