Information Please : Culture and Politics in the Age of Digital Machines /

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Information Please advances the ongoing critical project of the media scholar Mark Poster: theorizing the social and cultural effects of electronically mediated information. In this book Poster conceptualizes a new relation of humans to information machines, a relation that avoids privileging either...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Poster, Mark (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2006]
Temas:
Digital media > Social aspects.
Information society.
COMPUTERS / Information Technology.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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 Ad
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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