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Culture and Politics in the Age of Digital Machines
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Mark Poster
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English
Published/Copyright:
2006
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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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Mark Poster is Professor of History and of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine. His many books include What’s the Matter with the Internet?; Cultural History and Postmodernity; The Second Media Age; and The Mode of Information.
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“Engaging, informative, and thoroughly enjoyable, Information Please is a tour de force in its clear articulation of a coherent approach to the spectrum of issues arising from the penetration of information technology into every aspect of human life, from questions of global politics to the construction and protection of identities and selves in the context of digital media.”—Tim Lenoir, Kimberly J. Jenkins Professor of New Technologies and Society, Duke University
“Mark Poster has been one of the foremost scholars of global digital culture over the past decades. Information Please, probably his best and most advanced book to date, continues his project of using contemporary theory to interrogate new media and new media to illustrate and critique certain forms of theory.”—Douglas Kellner, coauthor of The Postmodern Adventure: Science, Technology, and Cultural Studies at the Third Millennium
“This book is a welcome publication. It proposes new directions for studying the information transference mediated by digital media, and can inspire the reader to look beyond the confinement of current theories, and explore new challenges and significance in the age of digital machines.”
-- Chong Han Discourse & Society
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
1 - I. Global Politics and New Media
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1. Perfect Transmissions: Evil Bert Laden
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2. Postcolonial Theory and Global Media
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3. The Information Empire
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4. Citizens, Digital Media, and Globalization
67 - II. The Culture of the Digital Self
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5. Identity Theft and Media
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6. The Aesthetics of Distracting Media
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7. The Good, the Bad, and the Virtual
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8. Psychoanalysis, the Body, and Information Machines
161 - III. Digital Commodities in Everyday Life
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9. Who Controls Digital Culture?
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10. Everyday (Virtual) Life
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11. Consumers, Users, and Digital Commodities
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12. Future Advertising: Dick’s Ubik and the Digital Ad
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Conclusion
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Notes
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References
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Index
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eBook published on:
August 30, 2006
eBook ISBN:
9780822388470
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320
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22 illustrations
