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Decoding Digital Culture with Science Fiction: Hyper-Modernism, Hyperreality, and Posthumanism
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Abstract 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... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
Marxism; media; culture; critical theory; film; science fiction; media theory; digital media
Classification
Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Research on Science and Technology
Free Keywords
Posthumanism; Creative Coding; Digital Cuture; Cultural Theory; Media Studies
Document language
English
Publication Year
2024
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
373 p.
Series
Digital Society, 67
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839472422
ISSN
2702-8860
ISBN
978-3-8394-7242-2
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0