This book surveys a ‘cluster’ of works that seek to explore the cultures of
cyberspace, the Internet and the information society. It introduces key
ideas, and includes detailed discussion of the work of two key thinkers in
this area, Manuel Castells and Donna Haraway, as well as outlining the
development of cyberculture studies as a field. To do this, the book also
explores selected ‘moments’ in this development, from the early 1990s,
when cyberspace and cyberculture were only just beginning to come
together as ideas, up to the present day, when the field of cyberculture
studies has grown and bloomed, producing innovative theoretical and
empirical work from a diversity of standpoints. Key topics include:
• life on the screen
• network society
• space of flows
• cyborg methods
Cyberculture Theorists is the ideal starting point for anyone wanting to
understand how to theorize cyberculture in all its myriad forms.

Series editor’s preface ix
Acknowledgements xiii

WHY CYBERCULTURE? 1
MOMENTS IN CYBERCULTURE 15
1 Cyberspace: first steps 15
2 Life on the screen 27
3 Internet society 36

WHY CASTELLS? 52
CASTELLS’ KEY IDEAS 59
1 Network society 59
2 Space of flows 69
3 Real virtuality 77

AFTER CASTELLS 88
WHY HARAWAY? 91
HARAWAY’S KEY IDEAS 95
1 Cyborg 95
2 Cyborg invocations 110
3 Cyborg methods 118

AFTER HARAWAY 129
AFTER CYBERCULTURE 131
Further reading 136
Other works cited 149
Index 154