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" Information please : "
Mark Poster
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BL
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637331
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dltt
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Poster, Mark
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Information please : : culture and politics in the age of digital machines /\ Mark Poster
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| Publication Statement
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Durham :: Duke University Press,, 2006
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303 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm
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0822338017 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 0822338394 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 9780822338017
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: 9780822338390
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-298) and index
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| Contents
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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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| 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
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Information society
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Digital media-- Social aspects
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303.48/33
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HM651.P67 2006
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