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Decoding Digital Culture with Science Fiction: Hyper-Modernism, Hyperreality, and Posthumanism

Decoding Digital Culture with Science Fiction: Hyper-Modernism, Hyperreality, and Posthumanism - Paperback

by Alan N. Shapiro
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Availability:In StockContributor:Alan N. ShapiroSeries:Digital SocietyPublish date:2024-09-03Pages:374
Language:EnglishPublisher:Transcript PublishingISBN-13:9783837672428ISBN-10:3837672425UPC:9783837672428Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Media Studies, Popular CultureSize:9.61 x 6.69 x 0.77 inchesWeight:1.3118Product ID:SCTFB1156A
How do digital media technologies affect society and our lives? Through the cultural theory hypotheses of hyper-modernism, hyperreality, and posthumanism, Alan N. Shapiro investigates the social impact of Virtual/Augmented Reality, AI, social media platforms, robots, and the Brain-Computer Interface. His examination of concepts of Jean Baudrillard and Katherine Hayles, as well as films such as Blade Runner 2049, Ghost in the Shell, Ex Machina, and the TV series Black Mirror, suggests that the boundary between science fiction narratives and the real world has become indistinct. Science-fictional thinking should be advanced as a principal mode of knowledge for grasping the world and digitalization.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Transcript PublishingISBN-13:9783837672428ISBN-10:3837672425UPC:9783837672428Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Media Studies, Popular CultureSize:9.61 x 6.69 x 0.77 inchesWeight:1.3118Product ID:SCTFB1156A
Alan N. Shapiro teaches media theory at Hochschule f?r K?nste Bremen and future design research at Hochschule Luzern. He has also been visiting professor of transdisciplinary design and heterotopia at the Folkwang Universit?t der K?nste, Essen, and worked for many years as a software developer. He is originally from New York City and lives in Frankfurt.
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