Presents a user-friendly navigational tool that helps you get to grips with cyberspace and its associated theories. This book explores the key interactive relationships between individuals, groups and the Internet, and shows how online communications can be analysed through the lenses of gender theory, political economy and semiotics.

This user-friendly navigational tool is the ultimate guide to help you get to grips with cyberspace and its associated theories. Interpreting key works on the subject, "Cyberspace" explores the key interactive relationships between individuals, groups and the Internet, and shows how online communications can be analysed through the lenses of gender theory, political economy and semiotics. Topics covered include: What is cyberspace?; texts and the textuality of cyberspace; interactivity and the matrix; games in space: MUDS, MOOS, IRC, Virtual worlds; and gender and identity. For students of media and culture studies, and indeed for anyone interested in the world of cyber culture, this will prove a fascinating and valuable read.