ISBN:
9780203164341
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (241 p)
Ausgabe:
Hoboken Taylor and Francis 2003
Paralleltitel:
Print version Digital McLuhan
DDC:
302.23
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
This seminal book highlights and explains the truly prophetic nature of McLuhan's theories. It shows us why and how the 'Wired' generation is now turning to McLuhan's work to better understand a global village in a digital age
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Cover; Digital Mcluhan: A Guide to the Information Millennium; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Coinciding Realms; The Game Plan; Mcluhan & Company; 2. The Reluctant Explicator; Analogy and Logic; The Digital Fulfillment, Part I; The Digital Fulfillment, Part II; Mcluhan's Medium; 3. Net Content; The Medium as Content: Writing Up on the Screen; The User as Content Online; Media Within Media Within Media…The Primacy of Speech and the Exception of Photography; 4. The Song of the Alphabet in Cyberspace; The Acoustic World, Heard Off Line; Script, Print, Cyberspace
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
The Acoustic World, Seen OnlineA Cyberspace Sans Alphabet?; 5. Online Angels; Virtual Virtue and Sex Discarnate; God's-Eye Views; The Devil in the Dna; 6. From Voyeur to Participant; Village of Children, Village of Voyeurs; Politics in the Online Global Village; Business in the Online Global Village; 7. The Fate of the Center; God's Space; Online Education Everywhere; The Gravity of Government; Monopoly Online?; The City Eternal: Analog as Digital; 8. The Mind Behind the Screen; Science and the Aesthetician; A Kinetic Understanding of Media; The Peripatetic Couch Potato
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
The Screens and the Skies9. Way Cool Text; Bare Essentials of the Media Thermometer; Cultural Consequences; Text Interactive; 10. The Rusted Gatekeeper; Janus Ascendant; Gatekeeping Mentality; Filtration Versus Evaluation; From Gatekeeper to Matchmaker; 11. Serfs to Surf; Inside-Out on the Phone; The Home Office: Friend of the Family; The Home Office as Friend: Counter-Indications; Toy, Mirror, and Art; 12. Beauty Machines; Of Delicatessen and Convertibles; Television as Art in the Digital Age; First Loves and Nostalgia Versus Art; The Internet as Mainstream; 13. Balinese at Work Online
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Mythic Proportions and Herculean Tasks: Vertical vs. HorizontalTheremin as Therapy for Art; Virtual Virtuosity; 14. Through a Glass, Brightly; The Web of Rear-View Mirrors; Rear-View Mirror in the Toolbox; Prescriptions for the Future; 15. Spirals of Media Evolution; Basics of the Tetrad; Spirit of the Digital Age; Deep Retrieval and the Digital Arts; Reversal of the Digital Age; Reversal of Media Determinism; Bibliography; Index
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record
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