The World Wide Web and contemporary cultural theory /
edited by Andrew Herman & Thomas Swiss.
- 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-296) and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The World Wide Web as Magic, Metaphor, and Power -- So Much for the Magic of Technology and the Free Market: The World Wide Web and the Corporate Media System -- Webs of Myth and Power: Connectivity and the New Computer Technopolis -- Webs of Conspiracy -- "Red Alert!": Rhetorics of the World Wide Web and "Friction Free" Capitalism -- Yo-Ho-Ho and a Server of Warez: Internet Software Piracy and the New Global Information Economy -- Shit Happens: Numerology, Destiny, and Control on the Web -- Hypertext Links: The Ethic of the Index and Its Space-Time Effects -- The Economy of Cyberpromotion: Awards on the World Wide Web -- The Bias of the Web -- Baud Girls and Cargo Cults: A Story about Celebrity, Community, and Profane Illumination on the Web -- Literacy Beyond Books: Reading When All the World's a Web -- Cultural Technologies and the "Evolution" of Technological Cultures -- Error 404: Doubting the Web -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.
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Culture. World Wide Web--Social aspects Internet--Social aspects Mass media and culture