Techno-Utopia/ Techno-Dystopia: Writing the Future of Cyber-Technology
| dc.contributor.author | Schram, Brian | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-01-13T14:29:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-01-13T14:29:24Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-01-13 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2014-12-10 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Will cyberspace ever become truly inhabitable, and if so, what kind of political climate will be present there? By investigating emergent discourses surrounding the future of cyber-technology, I reveal how online users are actively engaged in the preemptive literary construction and interpretation of a not yet realized cosmopolitics of virtual spaces. Additionally, I argue that futurism online constitutes the emergence of a novel form of real-time genre fiction intertextually linked to more conventional forms of science fiction that interpenetrate both public and academic discourses and interpret cyberspace as a potential source of either boundless freedom or dystopia. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10012/9058 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.pending | false | |
| dc.publisher | University of Waterloo | en |
| dc.subject | Cyber-cultures | en |
| dc.subject | Virtual Reality | en |
| dc.subject | Online Mythology | en |
| dc.subject | Cyborg Anthropology | en |
| dc.subject.program | Public Issues Anthropology | en |
| dc.title | Techno-Utopia/ Techno-Dystopia: Writing the Future of Cyber-Technology | en |
| dc.type | Master Thesis | en |
| uws-etd.degree | Master of Arts | en |
| uws-etd.degree.department | Anthropology | en |
| uws.peerReviewStatus | Unreviewed | en |
| uws.scholarLevel | Graduate | en |
| uws.typeOfResource | Text | en |