The Second Media Age

Poster (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

1995
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-0-7456-1396-3 (ISBN)

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Examines the implications of new communication technologies. This book evaluates critically the concepts of media and technology in various traditions of cultural theory, with the aim of rethinking the relations of humans to machines. It also examines theories of postmodernity in relation to the new media and the debate over multiculturalism.

Mark Poster is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine.

Part I: Theoretical Reconsiderations: 1. Social Theory and the New Media. 2. Postmodern Virtualities. 3. Postmodernity and the Politics of Multiculturalism. 4. The Mode of Information and Postmodernity. 5. Databases as Discourse, or Electronic Interpellations. 6. Critical Theory and TechnoCulture: Habermas and Baudrillard. Part II: Medias: 7. Politics in the Mode of Information: Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. 8. RoboBody. 9. What Does Wotan Want? Ambivalent Feminism in Wagner's Ring. 10. War in the Mode of Information. Notes. Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.6.1995
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	306 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Netzwerke
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7456-1396-9 / 0745613969
ISBN-13	978-0-7456-1396-3 / 9780745613963
Zustand	Neuware