In introducing the eight papers that constitute the theme of technoculture for this issue, I suggest that the diversity in responses to and understandings of the term ‘technoculture’ is not a weakness but a strength. The diffuse results of technocultural studies reflect the desires for relevance, generality and creation with intellectual discourse which, in technocultural times, enable or require diverse subject matter to be labelled ‘technoculture’.
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PenleyC.RossA. (eds) 1991, Technoculture, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis.
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Matthew Allen is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Internet Studies in the School of Media and Information, Curtin University of Technology. He recently appeared in the Discovery Channel documentary love dot com and is researching ways that the proliferation of Internet activity in Western socieites redefines the operation of desire.
