Information please : culture and politics in the age of digital machines
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
303 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780822338017, 9780822338390, 0822338017, 0822338394
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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