Information Please - Culture and Politics in the Age of Digital Machines

Informationen zum Autor Mark Poster Klappentext Essays on the political and theoretical implications of new digital media--from identity theft to open source software. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 I. Global Politics and New Media 1. Perfect Transmissions: Evil Bert laden 9 2. Postcolonial Theory and Global Media 26 3. The Information Empire 46 4. Citizens, Digital Media, and Globalization 67 II. The Culture of the Digital Self 5. Identity Theft and Media 87 6. The Aesthetics of Distracting Media 116 7. The Good, the Bad, and the Virtual 139 8. Psychoanalysis, the Body, and Information Machines 161 III. Digital Commodities in Everyday Life 9. Who Controls Digital Culture? 185 10. Everyday (Virtual) Life 211 11. Consumers, Users and Digital Commodities 231 12. Future Advertising: Dick’s Ubik and the Digital Ad Conclusion 267 Notes 269 References 281 Index 299

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Mark Poster, Poster, Mark Poster
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.08.2006
• EAN: 9780822338017
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3801-7
• Seiten: 320
• Abmessung: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Informatik, EDV > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Medien, Kommunikation > Kommunikationswissenschaft; Kommunikationswissenschaft