Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 115.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 07:53:13 +0100
From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: [New Book] The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural
Theory: Magic, Metaphor, Power
Greetings Humanist scholars,
((Hi, I thought --this might interest you --forwarded via Association of
Internet Researchers <http://aoir.org> --with courtesy and thanks to Dr.
Thomas Swiss. Thank you.--Arun))
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Date: 14 Jul 00 01:34:55 -0500
From: "swiss@drake" <thomas.swiss@drake.edu>
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The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory: Magic, Metaphor,
Power by Andrew Herman (Editor), Thomas Swiss (Editor)
Paperback - 320 pages 1 edition (July 2000)
Routledge; ISBN: 0415925029
Other Editions: Hardcover
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Editorial Reviews
Book Description
The World Wide Web is the most well-known, celebrated, and promoted
contemporary manifestation of "cyberspace." To date, however, most of the
public discourse on the Web falls into the category of explanatory
journalism -- the Web has remained largely unmapped in terms of
contemporary cultural research. This book, however, begins that mapping by
bringing together more than a dozen well-known scholars across the
humanities and social sciences to explore the Web as a cultural technology
characterized by a nexus of economic, political, social, and aesthetic
forces. Engaging the thematic issues of the Web as a space where magic,
metaphor, and power converge, the chapters cover such subjects as The Web
and Corporate Media Systems, Conspiracy Theories and the Web; The Economy
of Cyberpromotion, The Bias of the Web, The Web and Issues of Gender,and
so on.
Contributors: Jody Berland, Jodi Dean, Sean Cubitt, Greg Elmer, Andrew
Herman, Steven Jones, Nancy Kaplan, Robert McChesney, Vincent Mosco,
Stuart Moulthrop, Theresa Senft, Rob Shields, John Sloop, Thomas Swiss,
and David Tetzlaff.
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