Technoculture
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Technoculture is a neologism, not currently in standard dictionaries, popularized by editors Constance Penley and Andrew Ross in a book of essays bearing that title.[1]. It refers to the interactions between, and politics of, technology and culture.
The word has currency in academia. It is used by a number of universities to describe subject areas or courses of study; U. C. Davis has a program of technocultural studies, [1]; the University of Western Ontario offers a degree in Media, Information and Technoculture (which they refer to as MIT, offering an "MIT BA")[2].
An example of use is the description Georgetown University's course English/CCT 691[2] in Technoculture from Frankenstein to Cyberpunk, which covers the "social reception and representation of technology in literature and popular culture from the Romantic era to the present" and includes "all media, including film, TV, and recent video animation and Web 'zines.The focus will be mainly on American culture and the way in which machines, computers, and the body have been imagined."[3]
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ Penley, Constance, Andrew Ross (1991). Technoculture. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0-8166-1932-8.
- ^ CCT stands for "Communications, Culture and Technology"
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