Table of Contents

Introduction: Cyberculture: Life as Paradox Anna Maj Part I Techno-Cultural Horizon of Post-Privacy Networks, Flows, Fluids and Speed: Towards a Spatial Theory of Cyberspace Harris Breslow Accelerating the Human: the Origins and Philosophy of the 'Technological Singularity' Artur Matos Alves Designing Everyday Life in Sentient City: Privacy, Control and Ubiquitous Technologies Anna Maj What's Mine Is Yours: Online Personal Privacy in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Patrick E. Sharbaugh Part II Gaining Social Power in Cyber-Democracy Conquest of Paradise? Crowdsourcing in Social Media Networks Sabine Baumann President as a Saucepan: A Political Drama Enacted in Cyberculture Hui-Ching Chang Consuming Media: Bangladeshi Expat Cyberculture in Qatar Susan Dun and Md. Rezwan Al-Islam Malaysian Christians Online: Online/Offline Networks of Everyday Religion Meng Yoe Tan Part III Strategies in Online Education and Digital Art ICT in Education: Is There an Emergence of Contrasting Learning Cultures between Students and Teachers? Nuno de Almeida Alves and Carla F. Rodrigues Online Teaching and Learning: A Shift of Cultural Practices Kwok-Wing Lai Technological Heritage Preservation in Cyberculture: Learning Fibre Art in Virtual Communities Alexandra-Andreea Rusu Aporias of the Networked Culture: Cybercultural Utopias Twenty Years Later Ewa Wojtowicz

About the Author

Anna Maj, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor and a Vice-Director of the Institute of Cultural Studies at the University of Silesia, Katowice (PL). New media anthropologist, interested in mobile media, cyberart and HCI design, especially in usability and accessibility of interfaces. She is the author of the study Media in Travel, the editor and co-editor of several books on cyberculture and social networking, digital memories and cyborgisation. While working on this book, she became mother of little Mikolaj.