Cyborgs@Cyberspace?

Arguing that humans have always been technological as well as cultural beings, David Hakken calls for a fundamental rethinking of the traditional separation of anthropology and technical studies. Drawing on three decades of research on contemporary technological societies, this book outlines a fresh way of thinking about technology and offers an ethical and political response to the challenge of truly living as "cyborgs" in the age of cyberspace. Acknowledgments, I Introduction 2 An Alternative to “Computer Revolution” Thought Has There Been a Computer Revolution? 3 Doing Ethnography in Cyberspace 4 The Entity Problem: What Carries Culture in Cyberspace? 5 The Ethnography of Mid-Range Social Relations in Cyberspace: Community, Region, Organization, and Civil Society 6 Macro-Social Relations and Structure in Cyberspace 7 Knowledge in Cyberspace and the Practice of Ethnography 8 Conclusions