Human No More Digital Subjectivities, Unhuman Subjects, and the End of Anthropology

• Main Authors: Whitehead, Neil L., Wesch, Michael
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Boulder University Press of Colorado 2012
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Anthropology; Anthropology > Philosophy; Computers and civilization; Cybernetics; Cybernetics > Philosophy; Online social networks; Philosophy; SOCIAL SCIENCE; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; Sociology; Virtual reality

Turning an anthropological eye toward cyberspace, Human No More explores how conditions of the online world shape identity, place, culture, and death within virtual communities. Online worlds have recently thrown into question the traditional anthropological conception of place-based ethnography. Th...