Techno-Utopia/ Techno-Dystopia: Writing the Future of Cyber-Technology

dc.contributor.author	Schram, Brian
dc.date.accessioned	2015-01-13 14:29:24 (GMT)
dc.date.available	2015-01-13 14:29:24 (GMT)
dc.date.issued	2015-01-13
dc.date.submitted	2014-12-10
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10012/9058
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.language.iso	en	en
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.title	Techno-Utopia/ Techno-Dystopia: Writing the Future of Cyber-Technology	en
dc.type	Master Thesis	en
dc.pending	false
dc.subject.program	Public Issues Anthropology	en
uws-etd.degree.department	Anthropology	en
uws-etd.degree	Master of Arts	en
uws.typeOfResource	Text	en
uws.peerReviewStatus	Unreviewed	en
uws.scholarLevel	Graduate	en