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World Wide Web & Contemporary Cultural Theory
Paperback Edition: 1/2001
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; and the Web and issues of gender.
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Pages : 320
Publisher : Routledge
Subjects: Non-fiction, Humanities, Science And Technology, Social Sciences, Anthropology/archaeology, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Media Studies