Product Description: 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...read more

This edition includes five new extracts from Jean Baudrillard's writings in the 1990s, including those on the Gulf War, on the internet and his autobiographical reflections. It also includes an updated introduction by Mark Poster which provides a lucid overview of Baudrillard's work.

In What's the Matter with the Internet?, leading cultural theorist Mark Poster offers a sophisticated and astute assessment of the potential the new medium has to redefine culture and politics. Avoiding the mindless hype and meaningless jargon that has characterized much of the debate about the future of the Web, he details what truly distinguishes the Internet from other media and the implications these novel properties have for such vital issues as authorship, national identity and global citizenship, the fate of ethnicity and race, and democracy.Arguing that the Internet demands a social and cultural theory appropriate to the specific qualities of cyberspace, Poster reformulates the ideas of thinkers associated with our understanding of post-modern culture and the media (including Foucault, Deleuze, Heidegger, Baudrillard, and Derrida) to account for and illuminate the virtual world, paying particular attention to its political dimensions and the nature of identity. In this innovative analysis, Poster acknowledges that although the colonization of the Internet by corporations and governments does threaten to retard its capacity to bring about genuine change, the new medium is still capable of transforming both contemporary social practices and the way we see the world and ourselves. (view table of contents)

Product Description: First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This book examines the implications of new communication technologies in the light of the most recent work in social and cultural theory and argues that new developments in electronic media, such as the Internet and Virtual Reality, justify the designation of a "second media age"...read more

Product Description: The contributors to this study confront both recent, startling upheavals in international politics and the reorganization of foundations in the humanities and social sciences in order to re-examine Western political thought.

Aiming to highlight the nature of newly emerging forms of social life, the author discusses the addictive properties of television and arcade video games, as well as the surveillance possibilities which new communication technologies offer.

Product Description: When we make phone calls and use computers, electronic devices mediate how we communicate. In each instance, we exchange symbols and information just as we have since humans began speaking and writing. What, then--besides economy of space and time--differentiates electronic communications from ordinary speech and writing?The difference, Mark Poster argues, is the profound effect electronic mediation exerts on the very way we perceive ourselves and reality...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Poster, Mark

Product Description: Book by Poster, Mark

Product Description: Book by Poster, Mark