Against the Machine How the Web Is Reshaping Culture and Commerce -- and Why It Matters

Name: Against the Machine How the Web Is Reshaping Culture and Commerce -- and Why It Matters
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ISBN: 9780385522663

ISBN-10: 0385522665

ISBN-13: 9780385522663

Edition: 2008

Authors: Lee Siegel

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From the author hailed by theNew York Times Book Reviewfor his "drive-by brilliance" and dubbed by theNew York TimesMagazineas "one of the country's most eloquent and acid-tongued critics" comes a ruthless challenge to the conventional wisdom about the most consequential cultural development of our time: the Internet. Of course the Internet is not one thing or another; if anything, its boosters claim, the Web is everything at once. It's become not only our primary medium for communication and information but also the place we go to shop, to play, to debate, to find love. Lee Siegel argues that our ever-deepening immersion inlife online doesn't just reshape the ordinary rhythms of our days;…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/17/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.352
Language: English

Lee Siegelis professor of religious studies at the University of Hawaii. He is the author of many books, includingLove in a Dead Language,Who Wrote the Book of Love?, andLove and the Incredibly Old Man, all published by the University of Chicago Press.