The politics of Caribbean cyberculture [electronic resource] / Curwen Best
出版項
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
版本
1st ed
說明
250 p. : ill
附註
Electronic reproduction. Basingstoke, England : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Mode of access:World Wide Web. System requirements: Web browser. Title from title screen (viewed on Mar. 3, 2009). Access may berestricted to users at subscribing institutions
This book covers significant new ground, examining the impact and imprint of new leading technology on a range of popular expressions. Thistechnology includes the internet, the computer, the cell phone, television, and radio, among others. Some of the specific expressions and phenomena treated include: tourism, big budget films, sports, video games,entertainment culture, religious and gospel culture, mobile culture, popular music, writing and technology, and porn. The work shows acute awareness of the wider global contexts--social, cultural, political, and spiritual--that form the backdrop for Caribbean cultural reconfiguration. Curwen Best argues that Caribbean culture has gone wireless, virtual, and simulated in the age of the machines
Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-242) and index
Introduction : Caribbean cyberculture in the age of machines -- Discourse on technology : go search, go figure -- Internet and the culture wars : Caribbean literary/cultural studies in cyberspace -- Cyber reach: Caribbean gospel (and religious) culture (Version 5.0) -- Caribbean entertainmentand music culture pre- and post-Internet -- Cricket (sports) and the digital dispensation -- Video GameZ : enter the machines (Version 3.5) -- The Caribbean in big-budget film : the Caribbean in tourism
