Digital Culture by Charlie Gere

Digital Culture by Charlie Gere

Taking account of developments such as Facebook and the iPhone, this title charts the history of digital culture, as marked by responses to digital technology in art, music, design, film, literature and other areas. It is suitable for those concerned about the ever-changing future of our Digital Age.

Praise for the First Edition: 'There are lots of illustrations of early technological advances, which always look endearingly quaintBut the outstanding characteristic, in a field where pretentious obfuscation often seems obligatory, is that Gere can not only string a sentence together, but also uses those sentences to produce cogent and interesting arguments. He concludes that our digital culture has been built from elements including: Cold War defence technologies; avant-garde art practice; counter-cultural techno-utopianism; Post-Modernist critical theory; new wave subcultural style ... Architect's Journal This is an excellent book. It gives an almost complete overview of the main trends and views of what is generally called digital culture through the whole post-war period as well as a thorough exposition of the history of the computer and its predecessors and the origins of the modern division of labour. Journal of Visual Culture

Charlie Gere is Reader in New Media Research and Director of the Institute for Cultural Research, University of Lancaster. He is co-editing with Robin Boast an anthology entitled Allegories of the Information Age (forthcoming).

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ISBN 13	9781861893888
ISBN 10	1861893884
Title	Digital Culture
Author	Charlie Gere
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Reaktion Books
Year published	2008-09-01
Number of pages	240
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