Preface

Chapters in this book

1. i-iv i
2. Preface v
3. Table of Contents ix
4. I. Texts, Hypertexts and Narratology
5. Towards a Narratology of Holistic Texts. The Textual Theory of Hypertext 3
6. Hypertextuality 21
7. Multimedia Literature, “Exploratory Games” and their Hypertextuality 44
8. II. Semiotic and Philosophical Approaches
9. Media as Meaningful Gestures. Phenomenology, Inner Time Consciousness and the Possibilities of Media Philosophy 57
10. Media and Languages. From Nelson Goodman’s Philosophy of Languages to a Scheme for a Semiotic-Philological Theory of Communication 80
11. Aspects of Multimedial Communication 114
12. The Philosophical Foundations of the Work of Film Director Jean-Luc Godard 146
13. III. Aspects of Media and Technology Criticism
14. The Structural Constraint of “Concision” as it is Used in the Discourse Style of American Commercial Broadcasting 165
15. Cybersex: Α Desire for Disembodiment. On the Meaning of the Human Being in Cyber Discourse 203
16. The Internet, “Data Highways” and the Information Society A Comment on the Rhetoric of the Electronic Sublime 243
17. Rock Discourse, Mass Mediations and Cultural Identity. The Imaginary England of Pop-Poet Stephen Patrick Morrissey 291
18. IV. Media Cultural Developments
19. Internet and New Media in Russia. Some Historical and Contemporary Developments of Telecommunications and Information Technologies in Russia 321
20. Seeing You, Seeing Me in the Global, Virtual Space. Tomorrow’s Working, Learning and Leisure Environment 336
21. More than Sweaters and Shocking Pictures. On the Corporate Philosophy and Communications Strategy of Benetton 358
22. Name Index 381
23. Subject Index 384
24. 397-398 397