Superheroes and Digital Perspectives

Super Data

Sarah Young, Freyja McCreery (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

172 Seiten

2024
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-6669-5219-3 (ISBN)

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Looking primarily at the twenty-first century boom in superhero media, this collection provides insights into the overlap between data, the internet, and the superhero. Multiple disciplinary approaches investigate what can be learned from the superhero genre and its use and involvement with networked technology.

Superheroes and Digital Perspectives: Super Data examines the intersection of the superhero genre and issues of the internet, data, and digital media to provide not only a posthuman study of the superhero, but also an examination of the ways in which the superhero acts as a lens for our interactions with technology. Contributions to this collection range from the virality of the superhero as political expression to human-nonhuman relations, social expectations, and trends in cultural products. Providing fruitful, rigorous analysis of this genre in the context of ubiquitous handheld networked technology, social media, and data harvesting techniques, this book will be of particular interest to scholars of media studies, posthuman studies, communication, and popular culture.

Sarah Young is a postdoctoral researcher in the Media and Communication Department at Erasmus University. Freyja McCreery is a freelance researcher and PhD candidate.

Part I
Chapter 1: The Digital Age of Superheroes: Westworld’s Superandroids
Chapter 2: Artificial Identity: Tony Stark and the Problem of Selfhood
Chapter 3: Vision and Scarlet Witch: Post Humanism and Human-Machine Interaction
Chapter 4: Ghost in the Machine: Ghost Rider 2099 – A Digital Trickster
Part II
Chapter 5: Superman, Sexuality, and Bolsonarism: LGBTQIA+ Superheroes and Cultural Wars in the Brazilian Digital Semiosphere
Chapter 6: Digital Avengers, Disassembled: Understanding Thirty Years of Changing Superhero Bodies in Marvel Licenced Video Games Across Three Distinct Phases (1982-2012)
Chapter 7: Doom’s Data: Tracking a Transmedia Supervillain Through Data

Erscheinungsdatum	05.04.2024
Co-Autor	Christian Gonzatti, Ronaldo Henn
Vorwort	Daniel Trottier
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 238 mm
Gewicht	458 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-6669-5219-2 / 1666952192
ISBN-13	978-1-6669-5219-3 / 9781666952193
Zustand	Neuware