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Title:
The World Wide Web and contemporary cultural theory
Author:
Swiss, Thomas, 1952-
ISBN:
9780415925013

9780415925020
Publication Information:
New York : Routledge, 2000.
Physical Description:
312 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
The World Wide Web as magic, metaphor, and power / Thomas Swiss and Andrew Herman -- So much for the magic of technology and the free market : the World Wide Web and the corporate media system / Robert McChesney -- Webs of myth and power : connectivity and the new computer technopolis / Vincent Mosco -- Webs of conspiracy / Jodi Dean -- "Red alert!" : rhetorics of the World Wide Web and "friction free" capitalism / Andrew Herman and John H. Sloop -- Yo-ho-ho and a server of warez : Internet software piracy and the new global information economy / David Tetzlaff -- Shit happens : numerology, destiny, and control on the Web / Sean Cubitt -- Hypertext links : the ethic of the index and its space-time effects / Rob Shields -- The economy of cyberpromotion : awards on the World Wide Web / Greg Elmer -- The bias of the Web / Steven Jones -- Baud girls and cargo cults : a story about celebrity, community, and profane illumination on the Web / Theresa M. Senft -- Literacy beyond books : reading when all the world's a web / Nancy Kaplan -- Cultural technologies and the "evolution" of technological cultures / Jody Berland -- Error 404 : doubting the Web / Stuart Moulthrop.
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