The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural TheoryAndrew Herman, Thomas Swiss 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. |
Contents
Webs of Myth and Power | 37 |
3 | 50 |
4 | 63 |
Red Alert | 77 |
YoHoHo and a Server of Warez | 99 |
7 | 145 |
8 | 161 |
9 | 171 |
11 | 197 |
Literacy Beyond Books | 207 |
12 | 217 |
Cultural Technologies and the Evolution | 235 |
13 | 259 |
Bibliography | 277 |
Contributors | 297 |
10 | 183 |
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