Transgression 2.0 Media, Culture, and the Politics of a Digital Age [Paperback]

One doesn't need to look far to find examples of contemporary locations of cultural opposition. Digital piracy, audio mashups, The Onion and Wikipedia are all examples of transgression in our current mediascape. And as digital age transgression becomes increasingly essential, it also becomes more difficult to define?and protect.
The contributions in this collection are organized into six sections that address the use of new technologies to alter existing cultural messages, the incorporation of technology and alternative media in transformation of everyday cultural practices and institutions, and the reuse and repurposing of technology to focus active political engagement and innovative social change.

Bringing together a variety of scholars and case studies, Transgression 2.0 will be the first key resource for scholars and students interested in digital culture as a transformative intervention in the types, methods and significance of cultural politics.

I) Mashup/Remix/Repurpose1. Richard Edwards - Flip the Script: Political Mashups as Transgressive Texts 2. David Gunkel - Audible Transgressions: Art and Aesthetics after the Mashup3. Mark Amerika - Source Material Everywhere [[G.]Lit/ch RemiX]: A Conversation with Mark Amerika4. Paul Booth - Saw Fandom and the Transgression of Fan Excess
II) Pornography and Beyond5. Stephen Maddison - Is the Rectum Still a Grave? Anal Sex, Pornography and Transgression6. Sarah Neely - Making Bodies Visible: Post-Feminism and the Pornographication of Online Identities7. Grant Kien - BDSM and Transgression 2.0: The Case of Kink.com8. Julian Petley - Sick Stuff: Law, Criminality, and Obscenity

III) Media 2.0Legitimacy, Power, and Information9. Mark Nunes - Abusing the Media: Viral Validity in a Republic of Spam10. Ted Gournelos - Breaking the News: Wikileaks and Secrecy in the Age of the Internet11. Vanessa Au - My day of fame on Digg.com: Race, Representation, and Resistance in Web 2lħ