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Technoculture is a neologism that is not in standard dictionaries but that has some popularity in academia, popularized by editors Constance Penley and Andrew Ross in a book of essays bearing that title. It refers to the interactions between, and politics of, technology and culture. == Programs of study == "Technoculture" is used by a number of universities to describe subject areas or courses of study; UC Davis has a program of technocultural studies. In 2012 the major merged with Film Studies to form Cinema and Techno-Cultural Studies (CaTS), but in 2013 is being reviewed to become Cinema and Technoculture (see below); the University of Western Ontario offers a degree in Media, Information and Technoculture (which they refer to as MIT, offering an "MIT BA")(). UC Riverside is in the process of creating a program in technocultural studies beginning with the creation of a graduate certificate program in "Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Science Fiction Goes to School! )〕 According to its description, the Georgetown University course English/CCT 691〔CCT stands for "Communications, Culture and Technology"〕 titled ''Technoculture from Frankenstein to Cyberpunk,'' covers the "social reception and representation of technology in literature and popular culture from the Romantic era to the present" and includes "all media, including film, TV, and recent video animation and Web 'zines. The course focuses "mainly on American culture and the way in which machines, computers, and the body have been imagined."〔()〕 UC Davis Technocultural studies department focuses on "transdisciplinary approaches to artistic, cultural and scholarly production in contemporary media and digital arts, community media, and mutual concerns of the arts with the scientific and technological disciplines. In contrast to programs which see technology as the primary driving force, we place questions of poetics, aesthetics, history, politics and the environment at the core of our mission. In other words, we emphasize the 'culture' in Technoculture." The Technocultural studies Major program is an interdisciplinary integration of current research in cultural history and theory with innovative hands-on production in digital media and “low-tech.” It focuses on the fine and performing arts, media arts, community media, literature and cultural studies as they relate to technology and science. Backed by critical perspectives and the latest forms of research and production skills, students enjoy the mobility to explore individual research and expression, project-based collaboration and community engagement. Technocultural studies is a fairly new major at UC Davis and is considered a division of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies. * * *Film Studies and Technocultural Studies majors at UC Davis have merged into Cinema and Technoculture. The faculty have been hard at work on developing this new major, and it is going through the review process. Declared students will be grandfathered in to the existing programs to complete their major. They will also have the option of switching to the new major if they choose. The faculty of UC Davis believes these new additions will improve the program and hope their students take advantage of them. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「technoculture」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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