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Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture
"Flame Wars," the verbal firefights that take place between disembodied combatants on electronic bulletin boards, remind us that our interaction with the world is increasingly mediated by computers. Search and download computer ebooks Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture for free.
"Most [cybercrit] is pure hype. "Flame Wars" is different. "Flame Wars" is better. "Flame Wars" is like jacking into the heart of microprocessor darkness itself, like on-line surfing the Net Edge of the postmodern tidal wave. . . . Let the flame wars burn."--Andrew Leonard, "The Bay Guardian". Download Flame Wars computer ebooks
Bit by digital bit we are being "Borged," as devotees of Star Trek: The Next Generation would have it-transformed into cyborgian hybrids of technology and biology through our ever more frequent interaction with machines, or with one another through technological interfaces.
The subcultural practices of the "incurably informed," to borrow the cyberpunk novelist Pat Cadigan's coinage, offer a precognitive glimpse of mainstream culture in the near future, when many of us will be part-time residents in virtual communities. Yet, as the
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Flame Wars The Discourse of Cyberculture, ISBN-13: 9780822315407, ISBN-10: 0822315408
Flame Wars, in comp-slang, are vitriolic on-line exchanges. Often they are conducted publicly, in discussion groups clustered under thematic headings on electronic bulletin boards. Like public bathroom graffiti, their authors are sometimes anonymous, often pseudonymous, and almost always strangers. Author: Dery, Mark ISBN-10: 082236400X
format paperback language english publication year 01 06 1994 subject computing it subject 2 computing professional programming title flame wars the discourse of cyberculture author mark dery publisher duke univ pr publication date nov 01 1994 pages 349 binding paperback dimensions 6 00 wx 9 00 hx 1 00 d isbn 0822315408 subject computers cybernetics description flame wars the verbal firefights that take place between disembodied combatants on electronic bulletin boards remind us that our inter
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Bit by digital bit we are being "Borged," as devotees of Star Trek: The Next Generation would have it-transformed into cyborgian hybrids of technology and biology through our ever more frequent interaction with machines, or with one another through technological interfaces
Yet, as the
