A Cibercultura em Transformação: Poder, Liberdade e Sociabilidade (ABCiber Vol.2)

This book is a compilation of essays by well-known Brazilian researchers on the historically emergent and transnational phenomenon of cyberculture, the socio-technological formation corresponding to the contemporary development of late capitalism, articulated and modulated by the collective appropriation of interactive media and of cyberspace. The second online eBook of the ABCiber Collection, open to universal access, this project concentrates and deepens theoretical, epistemological and methodological concerns about the main characteristics of the civilizing process postulated therein, of an advanced multimediatic base – its origins, state of the art, trends and horizons –, and particularly how this process is expressed in Brazil, be it through its problematic aspects or through to its diversity and potentialities. As such, this book complements the reflective and critical cycle introduced by the first volume of the Collection, offering an abundant source of discussions encompassing diverse fields of human endeavor, such as the science, research and education of journalism and photography, music and entertainment, cyberspace, social networks and daily life, etc., as well as several areas of knowledge, including Communication, Information Science, Sociology, Philosophy, Semiotics, Political Science, Law, History, Education, Psychology, Arts and Design.