The Cybercultures Reader Cybercultures:from internet discussion groups to interactive cyberart;from Captain America to Modem Boy;from identity-play to community-building;from hackers to cyborgs... The Cybercultures Reader brings together key writings in the exciting new interdisciplinary field of cyberculture studies,providing in one volume a comprehensive guide to the ways in which new technologies are reshaping cultural forms and practices in the new millennium. Articles by leading cybercultural critics including Donna Haraway,Andrew Ross,Stelarc, Sadie Plant,Arthur and Marilouise Kroker,and Arturo Escobar are structured into thematic sections,addressing: introductions approaching cyberculture popular cybercultures cybersubcultures cyberfeminisms cybersexual cyberbodies post [cyber]bodies scaling cyberspaces cybercolonization Key features of the Reader include: A general introduction by the editors to the study of cyberculture A user's guide to the Reader Introductions to each thematic section,locating the articles in their theoretical and technological contexts A full bibliography of cybertexts Contributors:Anne Balsamo,Graham Barwell,Michael Benedikt,Kate Bowles,Gareth Branwyn,Scott Bukatman,Lisa Cartwright,Susan Clerc,Mark Dery,Arturo Escobar,Mike Featherstone,Thomas Foster,Jennifer Gonzalez,Diana Gromala,Donna Haraway,Arthur Kroker,Marilouise Kroker,Alison Landsberg,Timothy Leary,Deborah Lupton,Ananda Mitra,Lisa Nakamura,Mark Oehlert,Michael Ostwald,Sadie Plant,Forest Pyle,Kevin Robins,Andrew Ross,Chela Sandoval,Ziauddin Sardar,Vivian Sobchack,Claudia Springer, Judith Squires,Susan Leigh Star,Stelarc,Allucquere Rosanne Stone,Jon Stratton,Susan Stryker,Tiziana Terranova,Richard Thieme,David Tomas,Daniel Tsang,Nina Wakeford, Deena Weinstein,Michael Weinstein,Shawn P.Wilbur,Michele Willson,Randal Woodland, Susan Zickmund. The Editors:David Bell is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies and Barbara M.Kennedy is Senior Lecturer in Film and Cultural Studies at Staffordshire University