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The World Wide Web and contemporary cultural theory / edited by Andrew Herman & Thomas Swiss.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Routledge, 2000Description: 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415925029
  • 9780415925020
  • 0415925010
  • 9780415925013
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.46
LOC classification:
  • HM621. W67 2000
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The World Wide Web as Magic, Metaphor, and Power -- 1. So Much for the Magic of Technology and the Free Market: The World Wide Web and the Corporate Media System -- 2. Webs of Myth and Power: Connectivity and the New Computer Technopolis -- 3. Webs of Conspiracy -- 4. "Red Alert!": Rhetorics of the World Wide Web and "Friction Free" Capitalism -- 5. Yo-Ho-Ho and a Server of Warez: Internet Software Piracy and the New Global Information Economy -- 6. Shit Happens: Numerology, Destiny, and Control on the Web -- 7. Hypertext Links: The Ethic of the Index and Its Space-Time Effects -- 8. The Economy of Cyberpromotion: Awards on the World Wide Web -- 9. The Bias of the Web -- 10. Baud Girls and Cargo Cults: A Story about Celebrity, Community, and Profane Illumination on the Web -- 11. Literacy Beyond Books: Reading When All the World's a Web -- 12. Cultural Technologies and the "Evolution" of Technological Cultures -- 13. Error 404: Doubting the Web -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 306.46 WOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A251418B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-296) and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The World Wide Web as Magic, Metaphor, and Power -- 1. So Much for the Magic of Technology and the Free Market: The World Wide Web and the Corporate Media System -- 2. Webs of Myth and Power: Connectivity and the New Computer Technopolis -- 3. Webs of Conspiracy -- 4. "Red Alert!": Rhetorics of the World Wide Web and "Friction Free" Capitalism -- 5. Yo-Ho-Ho and a Server of Warez: Internet Software Piracy and the New Global Information Economy -- 6. Shit Happens: Numerology, Destiny, and Control on the Web -- 7. Hypertext Links: The Ethic of the Index and Its Space-Time Effects -- 8. The Economy of Cyberpromotion: Awards on the World Wide Web -- 9. The Bias of the Web -- 10. Baud Girls and Cargo Cults: A Story about Celebrity, Community, and Profane Illumination on the Web -- 11. Literacy Beyond Books: Reading When All the World's a Web -- 12. Cultural Technologies and the "Evolution" of Technological Cultures -- 13. Error 404: Doubting the Web -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

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