| Description |
xv, 278 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
A Flow of Monsters: Luddism and Virtual Technologies / Iain A. Boal -- The Global Information Highway: Project for an Ungovernable World / Herbert I. Schiller -- It's Discrimination, Stupid! / Oscar H. Gandy, Jr. -- Women and Children First: Gender and the Settling of the Electronic Frontier / Laura Miller -- From Internet to Information Superhighway / Howard Besser -- Media Activism and Radical Democracy / Jesse Drew -- Making Technology Democratic / Richard E. Sclove -- Soldier, Cyborg, Citizen / Kevin Robins and Les Levidow -- Body, Brain, and Communication: George Lakoff interviewed / Iain A. Boal -- Out of Time: Reflections on the Programming Life / Ellen Ullman -- Sade and Cyberspace / John Simmons -- Info Fetishism / Doug Henwood -- Digital Palsy: RSI and Restructuring Capital / R. Dennis Hayes -- Computers, Thinking, and Schools in "the New World Economic Order" / Monty Neill -- The Aesthetic of the Computer / Daniel Harris |
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Banalities of Information / Marina McDougall -- The Garden of Merging Paths / Rebecca Solnit -- The Shape of Truth to Come: New Media and Knowledge / Chris Carlsson -- Drowning by MicroGallery / Chris Riding -- In the Tracks of Jurassic Park: Phil Tippett interviewed / Iain A. Boal -- Reading and Riding with Borges / James Brook |
| Summary |
A variety of contributors gauge the impact of the new video, computer, and networked communications on the ways of life in a restructured world, exposing relations of power and dependence and offering strategies of resistance |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Computer networks -- Social aspects.
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Computers and civilization.
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Cyberspace -- Social aspects.
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Information society.
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| Author |
Boal, Iain A.
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Brook, James.
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| LC no. |
95007962 |
| ISBN |
0872862992 (paperback) |
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