Description

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.

Table of Contents

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

Product details

Published 18 Apr 2024
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 172
ISBN 9781666952193
Imprint Lexington Books
Dimensions 238 x 158 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Sarah Young

Anthology Editor

Freyja McCreery

Contributor

Ronaldo Henn

Contributor

Mark Hibbett

Contributor

Freyja McCreery

Contributor

Zak Waipara

Contributor

Carl Wilson

Contributor

Sarah Young

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