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9780822338017

Information Please

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  • ISBN13:

    9780822338017

  • ISBN10:

    0822338017

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-09-30
  • Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

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Summary

"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"

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1(8)
Global Politics and New Media
Perfect Transmissions: Evil Bert Laden
9(17)
Postcolonial Theory and Global Media
26(20)
The Information Empire
46(21)
Citizens, Digital Media, and Globalization
67(20)
The Culture of the Digital Self
Identity Theft and Media
87(29)
The Aesthetics of Distracting Media
116(23)
The Good, the Bad, and the Virtual
139(22)
Psychoanalysis, the Body, and Information Machines
161(24)
Digital Commodities in Everyday Life
Who Controls Digital Culture?
185(26)
Everyday (Virtual) Life
211(20)
Consumers, Users, and Digital Commodities
231(19)
Future Advertising: Dick's Ubik and the Digital Ad
250(17)
Conclusion 267(2)
Notes 269(12)
References 281(18)
Index 299

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