Alan N. Shapiro: Decoding Digital Culture with Science Fiction, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Alan N. Shapiro

Decoding Digital Culture with Science Fiction

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Hyper-Modernism, Hyperreality, and Posthumanism

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Verlag:: Transcript Verlag, 07/2024
Einband:: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Sprache:: Englisch
ISBN-13:: 9783837672428
Artikelnummer:: 11878134
Umfang:: 374 Seiten
Sonstiges:: 21 Farbabbildungen
Gewicht:: 652 g
Maße:: 240 x 154 mm
Stärke:: 26 mm
Erscheinungstermin:: 15.7.2024
Serie:: Digitale Gesellschaft - Band 67
Hinweis: Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!

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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.