In the few decades since they first blipped their way onto television screens, videogames
have become one of the most culturally, socially and economically significant media forms …

The internet has become embedded into our daily lives, no longer an esoteric phenomenon,
but instead an unremarkable way of carrying out our interactions with one another. Online …

Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual
worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtual worlds. The residents of Second Life …

The Human Race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's
games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few …

Winner of the 2009 Ruth Benedict Prize for Outstanding Monograph from the Society of
Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the …

Literacies are situated. All uses of written language can be seen as located in particular
times and places. Equally, all literate activity is indicative of broader social practices. This …

On 20 October 1 969 the first attempt to log in to a primitive network of two computers was
made at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) and the Stanford Research …

This book traces the development of'community archaeology', identifying both its
advantages and disadvantages by describing how and why tensions have arisen between …

A work that bridges media archaeology and visual culture studies argues that the Internet
has emerged as a mass medium by linking control with freedom and democracy. How has …

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Monsters, Aliens and Others in Popular Culture Elaine L. Graham Page 2 Page 3 Manchester …