ISBN:
9780415925013
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (321 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory : Magic, Metaphor, Power
DDC:
306.4/6
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Engaging the thematic issues of the Web as a space where magic, metaphor, and power converge, the chapters cover such subjects as The Web and Corporate Media Systems, Conspiracy Theories and the Web; The Economy of Cyberpromotion, The Bias of the Web, The Web and Issues of Gender, and so on
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The World Wide Web as Magic, Metaphor, and Power; 1 So Much for the Magic of Technology and the Free Market: The World Wide Web and the Corporate Media System; 2 Webs of Myth and Power: Connectivity and the New Computer Technopolis; 3 Webs of Conspiracy; 4 ""Red Alert!"": Rhetorics of the World Wide Web and ""Friction Free"" Capitalism; 5 Yo-Ho-Ho and a Server of Warez: Internet Software Piracy and the New Global Information Economy; 6 Shit Happens: Numerology, Destiny, and Control on the Web
Description / Table of Contents:
7 Hypertext Links: The Ethic of the Index and Its Space-Time Effects8 The Economy of Cyberpromotion: Awards on the World Wide Web; 9 The Bias of the Web; 10 Baud Girls and Cargo Cults: A Story about Celebrity, Community, and Profane Illumination on the Web; 11 Literacy Beyond Books: Reading When All the World's a Web; 12 Cultural Technologies and the ""Evolution"" of Technological Cultures; 13 Error 404: Doubting the Web; Bibliography; Contributors; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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