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Culture and Politics in the Age of Digital Machines
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8847-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Poster, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein Soziale und ethische Aspekte der EDV

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

I. Global Politics and New Media

1. Perfect Transmissions: Evil Bert laden 9

2. Postcolonial Theory and Global Media 26

3. The Information Empire 46

4. Citizens, Digital Media, and Globalization 67

II. The Culture of the Digital Self

5. Identity Theft and Media 87

6. The Aesthetics of Distracting Media 116

7. The Good, the Bad, and the Virtual 139

8. Psychoanalysis, the Body, and Information Machines 161

III. Digital Commodities in Everyday Life

9. Who Controls Digital Culture? 185

10. Everyday (Virtual) Life 211

11. Consumers, Users and Digital Commodities 231

12. Future Advertising: Dick’s Ubik and the Digital Ad

Conclusion 267

Notes 269

References 281

Index 299

Über Autor(innen)

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.