Covering diverse themes such as intellectual property, media and architecture, satellite debris, server farms and search engines, art installations, surveillance, peer-to-peer file-sharing, the construction of techno-history and much more, this book discusses both the culture of technology that we live in today, and culture as technology.

Selected Contents: 1. Introduction: Cultural Technologies in Cultures of Technology Göran BolinPart 1: Histories of Cultural Technologies 2. The Algorithmic Turn: Photosynth, Augmented Reality and the Changing Implications of the Image William Uricchio 3. The Compact Disc and Its Culture: Notes on Melancholia Eric Rothenbuhler 4. Peer-to-peer File-sharing Systems: Files, Objects, Distribution Mats Björkin 5. Technostruggles and the Satellite Dish: A Populist Approach to Infrastructure Lisa ParksPart 2: Epistemologies of Cultural Technologies 6. Being ‘Accountable’: TV Audiences and Surveillance Toby Miller 7. Time, Space and Clouds of Information: Data Center Discourse and the Meaning of Durability Peter Jakobsson and Fredrik Stiernstedt 8. Search Engines in Practice: Structure and Culture in Technical Development Elizabeth Van Couvering 9. Technology and Epistemology: Information Policy and Desire Sandra BramanPart 3: Uses of Cultural Technologies 10. Web 2.0 Technologies of the Self Maria Bakardjieva and Georgia Gaden 11. Virtual Technologies of Nation-States. State Administration in Second Life Stina Bengtsson 12. The Scary Promise of Technology: Developing New Forms of Audience Research Joke Hermes