Critical Digital Studies

"The Krokers are more than experts on questions of digital culture; they are leaders in the field who bring an essential, innovative, and irreplaceable perspective to literature in the area." -- Ted Hiebert, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington, Bothell "Critical Digital Studies offers sound and well-supported research at the very edge of critical reflection. Arthur and Marilouise Kroker's anthology keeps up with the speed economies of networks not from within the wave but where the waves crash and even at times outruns them." -- Ricardo Dominguez, Electronic Disturbance Theater "Arthur and Marilouise Kroker have done a superb job in bringing together the most up-to-date and original scholarship in the field which, as theorists, they have helped to shape. This new edition should be required reading for anyone engaged in digital media research and/or new forms of creative digital practice." -- Janine Marchessault, Canada Research Chair in Art, Digital Media and Globalization, York University

Since its initial publication, Critical Digital Studies has proven an indispensable guide to understanding digitally mediated culture. Bringing together the leading scholars in this growing field, internationally renowned scholars Arthur and Marilouise Kroker present an innovative and interdisciplinary survey of the relationship between humanity and technology. The reader offers a study of our digital future, a means of understanding the world with new analytic tools and means of communication that are defining the twenty-first century.

The second edition includes new essays on the impact of social networking technologies and new media. A new section – “New Digital Media” – presents important, new articles on topics including hacktivism in the age of digital power and the relationship between gaming and capitalism. The extraordinary range and depth of the first edition has been maintained in this new edition. Critical Digital Studies will continue to provide the leading edge to readers wanting to understand the complex intersection of digital culture and human knowledge.