Cargando…

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

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...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Poster, Mark
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Global politics and new media
  • Perfect transmissions : evil Bert Laden
  • Postcolonial theory and global media
  • The information empire
  • Citizens, digital media, and globalization
  • The culture of the digital self
  • Identity theft and media
  • The aesthetics of distracting media
  • The good, the bad, and the virtual
  • Psychoanalysis, the body, and information machines
  • Digital commodities in everyday life
  • Who controls digital culture?
  • Everyday (virtual) life
  • Consumers, users, and digital commodities
  • Future advertising : Dick's Ubik and the digital.