Information please : culture and politics in the age of digital machines / Mark Poster.

Author/creator Poster, Mark
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham : Duke University Press, 2006.
Description303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [281]-298) and index.
LCCN 2006004595
ISBN0822338017 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822338394 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780822338017
ISBN9780822338390

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks HM651 .P67 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold