culture and politics in the age of digital machines /
First Statement of Responsibility
Mark Poster
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Durham :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Duke University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2006
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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303 p. :
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ill. ;
Dimensions
24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-298) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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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
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Information Please advances the ongoing critical project of the media scholar Mark Poster: theorizing the social and cultural effects of electronically mediated information. In this book Poster conceptualizes a new relation of humans to information machines, a relation that avoids privileging either the human or the machine but instead focuses on the structures of their interactions. Synthesizing a broad range of critical theory, he explores how texts, images, and sounds are made different when they are mediated by information machines, how this difference affects individuals as well as social and political formations, and how it creates opportunities for progressive change