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The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory

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Magic, Metaphor, Power

The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory

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The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory book

Magic, Metaphor, Power
Edited ByAndrew Herman, Thomas Swiss
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2000
eBook Published 14 April 2014
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203700488
Pages 320
eBook ISBN 9780203700488
Subjects Humanities
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Herman, A., & Swiss, T. (Eds.). (2000). The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory: Magic, Metaphor, Power (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203700488

ABSTRACT

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |4 pages

Introduction: The World Wide Web as Magic, Metaphor, and Power

chapter 1|32 pages

So Much for the Magic of Technology and the Free Market: The World Wide Web and the Corporate Media System

chapter 2|24 pages

Webs of Myth and Power: Connectivity and the New Computer Technopolis

chapter 3|16 pages

Webs of Conspiracy

chapter 4|22 pages

"Red Alert!": Rhetorics of the World Wide Web and "Friction Free" Capitalism

chapter 5|28 pages

Yo-Ho-Ho and a Server of Warez: Internet Software Piracy and the New Global Information Economy

chapter 6|18 pages

Shit Happens: Numerology, Destiny, and Control on the Web

chapter 7|16 pages

Hypertext Links: The Ethic of the Index and Its Space-Time Effects

chapter 8|10 pages

The Economy of Cyberpromotion: Awards on the World Wide Web

chapter 9|12 pages

The Bias of the Web

chapter 10|24 pages

Baud Girls and Cargo Cults: A Story about Celebrity, Community, and Profane Illumination on the Web

chapter 11|28 pages

Literacy Beyond Books: Reading When All the World's a Web

chapter 12|24 pages

Cultural Technologies and the "Evolution" of Technological Cultures

chapter 13|18 pages

Error 404: Doubting the Web

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