The World Wide Web and contemporary cultural theory
By: edited by Andrew Herman & Thomas Swiss.
Contributors: Herman, Andrew, 1957-; Swiss, Thomas, 1952-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Culture; World Wide Web -- Social aspects; Internet -- Social aspects; Mass media and culture
Description: Explore the web as a cultural technology ... a complex of forces, economic and political, social and aestetic. (back cover.).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-296) and index.
Table of contents: title: The World Wide Web as magic, metaphor, and power / Thomas Swiss and Andrew Herman; title: So much for the magic of technology and the free market : the World Wide Web and the corporate media system / Robert McChesney; title: Webs of myth and power : connectivity and the new computer technopolis / Vincent Mosco; title: Webs of conspiracy / Jodi Dean; title: "Red alert!" : rhetorics of the World Wide Web and "friction free" capitalism / Andrew Herman and John H. Sloop; title: Yo-ho-ho and a server of warez : Internet software piracy and the new global information economy / David Tetzlaff; title: Shit happens : numerology, destiny, and control on the Web / Sean Cubitt; title: Hypertext links : the ethic of the index and its space-time effects / Rob Shields; title: The economy of cyberpromotion : awards on the World Wide Web / Greg Elmer; title: The bias of the Web / Steven Jones; title: Baud girls and cargo cults : a story about celebrity, community, and profane illumination on the Web / Theresa M. Senft; title: Literacy beyond books : reading when all the world's a web / Nancy Kaplan; title: Cultural technologies and the "evolution" of technological cultures / Jody Berland; title: Error 404 : doubting the Web / Stuart Moulthrop.