This book examines the implications of new communication technologies in the light of the most recent work in social and cultural theory and argues that new developments in electronic media, such as the Internet and Virtual Reality, justify the designation of a ‘second media age’.
Jadual kandungan
Part I: Theoretical Reconsiderations: .
1. Social Theory and the New Media.
2. Postmodern Virtualities.
3. Postmodernity and the Politics of Multiculturalism.
4. The Mode of Information and Postmodernity.
5. Databases as Discourse, or Electronic Interpellations.
6. Critical Theory and Techno Culture: Habermas and
Baudrillard.
Part II: Medias: .
7. Politics in the Mode of Information: Spike Lee’s Do the
Right Thing. .
8. Robo Body.
9. What Does Wotan Want? Ambivalent Feminism in Wagner’s
Ring. .
10. War in the Mode of Information.
Notes.
Index.
Mengenai Pengarang
Mark Poster is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine.
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