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Tables of Contents for The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
vii
Introduction The World Wide Web as Magic, Metaphor, and Power
1
4
Thomas Swiss
Andrew Herman
So Much for the Magic of Technology and the Free Market
The World Wide Web and the Corporate Media System
5
32
Robert Mcchesney
Webs of Myth and Power
Connectivity and the New Computer Technopolis
37
24
Vincent Mosco
Webs of Conspiracy
61
110
Jodi Dean
``Red Alert!''
Rhetorics of the World Wide Web and ``Friction Free'' Capitalism
77
22
Andrew Herman
John H. Sloop
Yo-Ho-Ho and a Server of Warez
Internet Software Piracy and the New Global Information Economy
99
28
David Tetzlaff
Shit Happens
Numerology, Destiny, and Control on the Web
127
18
Sean Cubitt
Hypertext Links
The Ethic of the Index and Its Space-Time Effects
145
16
Rob Shields
The Economy of Cyberpromotion
Awards on the World Wide Web
161
10
Greg Elmer
The Bias of the Web
171
64
Steven Jones
Baud Girls and Cargo Cults
A Story about Celebrity, Community, and Profane Illumination on the Web
183
24
Theresa M. Senft
Literacy Beyond Books
Reading When All the World's a Web
207
28
Nancy Kaplan
Cultural Technologies and the ``Evolution'' of Technological Cultures
235
42
Jody Berland
Error 404
Doubting the Web
259
18
Stuart Moulthrop
Bibliography
277
20
Contributors
297
4
Index
301