Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture

Item Number

QA76.9.C66F55 1994

Author/Artist/Editor

Mark Dery

Type

Book, Hard Copy

Date

1994

Press/Publisher

Duke U P

Language

English

Description

A scholarly investigation on internet "flames" of the flights on electronic bulletin boards. 

Important Notes

Contents: 
New Age Mutant Ninja Hackers : reading Mondo 2000 / Vivian Sobchack --
Techgnosis, magic, memory, and the angels of information / Erik Davis --
Agrippa, or, The apocalyptic book / Peter Schwenger --
Gibson's typewriter / Scott Bukatman --
Virtual surreality : our new romance with plot devices / Marc Laidlaw --
Chapter 14, Synners / Pat Cadigan --
Feminism for the incurably informed / Anne Balsamo --
Sex, memories, and angry women / Claudia Springer --
Black to the future : interviews with Samuel R. Delany, Greg Tate, and Tricia Rose / Mark Dery --
Compu-sex : erotica for cybernauts / Gareth Branwyn --
A rape in cyberspace ; or, how an evil clown, a Haitian trickster spirit, two wizards, and a cast of dozens turned a database into a society / Julian Dibbell --
Virtual environments and the emergence of synthetic reason / Manuel De Landa --
Survival research laboratories performs in Austria / Mark Pauline --
Taming the computer / Gary Chapman.

Keywords

cyberstudies, internet, flames, online message boards, 1990s cyber studies

ISSN/ISBN

0822315319

Availability

Available

OCLC

31295214