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The Cultural Imaginary of the Internet

Virtual Utopias and Dystopias

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  • © 2014

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Authors:
  1. Majid Yar

    1. University of Hull, UK

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Unravelling Utopias and Dystopias

    • Majid Yar
    Pages 1-11

  3. The Techno-Scientific Utopias of Modernity: From Real to Virtual

    • Majid Yar
    Pages 12-26

  4. Virtual Utopias and the Imaginary of the Internet

    • Majid Yar
    Pages 27-46

  5. The Dystopian Worlds of Techno-Science

    • Majid Yar
    Pages 47-57

  6. Virtual Dystopias and the Imaginary of the Internet

    • Majid Yar
    Pages 58-71

  7. Beyond Virtual Utopias and Dystopias?

    • Majid Yar
    Pages 72-79

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 80-106
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About this book

Contemporary culture offer contradictory views of the internet and new media technologies, painting them in extremes of optimistic enthusiasm and pessimistic concern. This book explores such representations, uncovering the roots of our cultural responses to the internet, centred upon a profoundly ambivalent reaction to technological modernity.

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  • University of Hull, UK

    Majid Yar

About the author

Majid Yar is Professor of Sociology at the University of Hull, UK. He has researched and published widely in the areas of crime & deviance studies, media & popular culture, and social & criminological theory.

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