Essays about: "cyberculture"

Found 3 essays containing the word cyberculture.

  1. 1. Undoing Gender Interpellations in Role-Playing Videogame Spaces : The case of Cyberpunk 2077 as a case of resistance from a feminist post-constructionist perspective

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Umeå centrum för genusstudier (UCGS)

    Author : Anna Militsi; [2021]
    Keywords : posthuman cyborg; autoethnography; video games; cyberculture;

    Abstract : This Thesis is pertinent to the negotiations of sex, gender, and sexuality in the video game Cyberpunk 2077 and the narratives the gamer traverses while on the game, and aimed to add to the literature regarding the entanglements of gender and technology within the virtual world of the video games.This Thesis focused on investigating the potential of technocultural assemblages to undo gender (and racial) interpellations, and more specifically in regard to the assemblages that are formed between (post)human and avatar in first-person video games that allow the user to create their character with a great deal of freedom. READ MORE

  3. 2. The portrayal of Sweden in American alt-right media, as exemplified by Breitbart News

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Europastudier

    Author : Viktor Andersson; [2018]
    Keywords : alt-right; Breitbart News; Sweden; argument analysis; immigration; United States; Europastudier; Law and Political Science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The alt-right is a fairly recent addition to the pantheon of political ideologies. Its rise to prominence is seen by many as the driving force behind Donald Trump’s presidency. The youth of the ideology has also created a natural relationship between it and the fields of new media and cyberculture. READ MORE

  4. 3. So, did you know how you use it?: Understanding The Consumption in Facebook Community

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Rabail Junaid; Long Chen; [2014]
    Keywords : Consumption; Facebook; Community; Prosumption; Consumer Culture Theory; CCT; Cyberculture; Technological Culture; Facebook Consumption.; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The rapid changes in internet technology, coupled with Web 2.0 have created new and exciting ways of how we interact, socialize, and express ourselves. These new forms of socializations have been highly facilitated by Social Networking Sites (SNSs). READ MORE