Second Media Age

This book examines the implications of new communication technologies in the light of the most recent work in social and cultural theory and argues that new developments in electronic media, such as the Internet and Virtual Reality, justify the designation of a "second media age".

List of contents

Part I: Theoretical Reconsiderations: .
1. Social Theory and the New Media.

2. Postmodern Virtualities.

3. Postmodernity and the Politics of Multiculturalism.

4. The Mode of Information and Postmodernity.

5. Databases as Discourse, or Electronic Interpellations.

6. Critical Theory and TechnoCulture: Habermas and Baudrillard.

Part II: Medias: .

7. Politics in the Mode of Information: Spike Lee s Do the Right Thing. .

8. RoboBody.

9. What Does Wotan Want? Ambivalent Feminism in Wagner s Ring. .

10. War in the Mode of Information.

Notes.

Index.

About the author

Mark Poster is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine.

Summary

Examines the implications of new communication technologies. This book evaluates critically the concepts of media and technology in various traditions of cultural theory, with the aim of rethinking the relations of humans to machines. It also examines theories of postmodernity in relation to the new media and the debate over multiculturalism.

Product details

• Authors: Poster, Mark Poster, Mark (University of California Poster, Poster Mark
• Publisher: Wiley & Sons
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Book
• Released: 01.01.1995
• EAN: 9780745613963
• ISBN: 978-0-7456-1396-3
• No. of pages: 200
• Weight: 302 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; Media Studies, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, COMPUTERS / Networking / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Sociology & anthropology, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, Computer networking & communications, Sociology and anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies, Computer networking and communications