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Contemporary culture offer contradictory views of the internet and new media technologies, painting them in extremes of optimistic enthusiasm and pessimistic concern. This book explores such representations, uncovering the roots of our cultural responses to the internet, centred upon a profoundly ambivalent reaction to technological modernity.

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1. Unravelling Utopias and Dystopias 2. The Techno-Scientific Utopias of Modernity: From Real to Virtual 3. Virtual Utopias and the Imaginary of the Internet 4. The Dystopian Worlds of Techno-Science 5. Virtual Dystopias and the Imaginary of the Internet 6. Beyond Virtual Utopias and Dystopias?

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Majid Yar is Professor of Sociology at the University of Hull, UK. He has researched and published widely in the areas of crime & deviance studies, media & popular culture, and social & criminological theory.

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