Information Please Culture and Politics in the Age of Digital Machines

Name: Information Please Culture and Politics in the Age of Digital Machines
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ISBN: 9780822338390

ISBN-10: 0822338394

ISBN-13: 9780822338390

Edition: 2006

Authors: Mark Poster

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'Information Please' advances the ongoing critical project of media scholar Mark Poster: theorising the social and cultural efforts of electronically mediated information.

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 8/30/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 0.24" wide x 0.35" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Global Politics and New Media



Perfect Transmissions: Evil Bert laden



Postcolonial Theory and Global Media



The Information Empire



Citizens, Digital Media, and Globalization



The Culture of the Digital Self



Identity Theft and Media



The Aesthetics of Distracting Media



The Good, the Bad, and the Virtual



Psychoanalysis, the Body, and Information Machines



Digital Commodities in Everyday Life



Who Controls Digital Culture?



Everyday (Virtual) Life



Consumers, Users and Digital Commodities



Future Advertising: Dick's Ubik and the Digital Ad


Conclusion


Notes


References


Index