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Information please : culture and politics in the age of digital machines

Title
Information please : culture and politics in the age of digital machines / Mark Poster.
Author
Poster, Mark
Publication
Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.

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Description
303 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Information society
  • Digital media > Social aspects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-298) and index.
Contents
I. Global politics and new media -- 1. Perfect transmissions : Evil Bert Laden -- 2. Postcolonial theory and global media -- 3. The information empire -- 4. Citizens, digital media, and globalization -- II. The culture of the digital self -- 5. Identity theft and media -- 6. The aesthetics of distracting media -- 7. The good, the bad, and the virtual -- 8. Psychoanalysis, the body, and information machines -- III. Digital commodities in everyday life -- 9. Who controls digital culture? -- 10. Everyday (virtual) life -- 11. Consumers, users, and digital commodities -- 12. Future advertising : Dick's Ubik and the digital ad.
ISBN
  • 0822338017 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0822338394 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2006004595
  • 9780822338017
  • 9780822338390
OCLC
  • OCM64208113
  • SCSB-5278712
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Columbia University Libraries