Dystopian narrative is a product of the social ferment of the twentieth century. A hundred
years of war, famine, disease, state terror, genocide, ecocide, and the depletion of humanity …

The femme fatale occupies a precarious yet highly visible space in contemporary cinema.
From sci-fi alien women to teenage bad girls, filmmakers continue to draw on the notion of …

The digital image, Death of a Cyborg (2010) by Canadian artist Shorra (Deborah Mason),
that appears on the cover articulates many of the ideas about touch and technology …

This study of multimedia was written after several years' work as a consultant, analysing web
sites. Its genesis was, therefore, in the practical need to communicate effectively with the …

The Star Trek franchise represents one of the most successful emanations of popular media
in our culture. The number of books, both popular and scholarly, published on the subject of …

This article maps the metaphors that have been used to facilitate human engagement with
wearable technologies—extension, enhancement, augmentation—and locates the values …

The contradictions and complexities of the cyborg therefore hold particular appeal to
programme makers of dramatic TV narratives. Bronwen Calvert examines the uses and …

» Ma'am Captain «, Action Girls und Dritte Geschlechter-die Studie beschäftigt sich mit der
Inszenierung von Geschlecht in der populären Kultur am Beispiel von sechs Science-Fiction …

Spatial media has received impetus in recent studies, arguing that its function as a mediator
of meaning and enabler of intimacy are critical in late modernity. We suggest that spatial …

They never ask how the practices of masculine supremacy, or many other systems of
structured inequality, get built into and out of working machines. How and in what directions …