This book brings together articles on core themes of the contemporary social, political, cultural, economic and technological scenario connected to the transnational phenomenon of cyberculture, the phase of post-industrial capitalism founded upon the media and interactive networks.

The collection, which is divided into five thematic macrosections encompassing the areas of Communication, Information Science, Philosophy, Esthetics, Semiotics, Politics, Anthropology, Sociology and Arts. Its purpose is to shed light on the state of the art of cyberculture by addressing fundamental theoretical concepts of the times, such as post-mass culture and digital convergence, the issue of democracy and freedom, the vectors of space and time, quotidian life and its mediations, the imaginary, subjectivity and perception, the body and sociability, cognition and authorship, games, music and consumption, etc. Tying these themes together against the grain, most of the articles deal with and/or propose the deconstruction of the logic of modernity, of mass, and the rewriting of several of the aforementioned factors that derive mostly from this recent cultural heritage.

With its focus on the change in current paradigms, the collection allows for the formation of a comprehensive view of the vicissitudes and possibilities of the advanced technological world, particularly insofar as they concern the macrorelationships between media/interactive networks and the reorganization of social life. It also contributes to the theoretical, epistemological and methodological nucleation of the new interdisciplinary field of knowledge that the institutional and intellectual objectives of ABCiber - Brazilian Association of Cyberculture Researchers propose to organize, foment, expand and consolidate in Brazil.