Hacking Cyberspace

"In Hacking Cyberspace David J. Gunkel examines the metaphors applied to new technologies, and how those metaphors inform, shape, and drive the implementation of the technology in question. The author"

David J Gunkel

Introduction: Prolegomena-Hacking Cyberspace , Terra Nova: The New Worlds of Cyberspace , Ars Metaphorica: The Computer as a Device of Commnication , Veritatem Imitari: Virtual Reality and the Deconstruction of the Image , Lingua Ex Machina: Computer-Mediated Communication and the Tower of Babel , Corpus Amittere: Cyberspace and the Body , Ecce Cyborg: The Subject of Communication , Appendix: Deconstruction for Dummies