Information please : culture and politics in the age of digital machines


Mark Poster
Bok Engelsk 2006 · Electronic books.
Utgitt
Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2006
Omfang
303 s. : ill.
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. Global Politics and New Media; 1. Perfect Transmissions: Evil Bert Laden; 2. Postcolonial Theory and Global Media; 3. The Information Empire; 4. Citizens, Digital Media, and Globalization; II. The Culture of the Digital Self; 5. Identity Theft and Media; 6. The Aesthetics of Distracting Media; 7. The Good, the Bad, and the Virtual; 8. Psychoanalysis, the Body, and Information Machines; III. Digital Commodities in Everyday Life; 9. Who Controls Digital Culture?; 10. Everyday (Virtual) Life; 11. Consumers, Users, and Digital Commodities. - 12. Future Advertising: Dick's Ubik and the Digital AdConclusion; Notes; References; Index. - Mark Poster considers how new media-from TiVO to digital file sharing-affects society, and he traces its implications for cultural theory and progressive political change.
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Digital media - Social aspects
Information society
Social Change
Social Sciences
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0822338017. - 0822338394. - 9780822338017. - 9780822338390

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