The Mode of Information: Poststructuralism and Social Contexts

In this path-breaking work, Mark Poster highlights the nature of the newly emerging forms of social life, in the current era. The flexibility of language which the computer allows makes the written word less certain and less concrete. The result of these changes, Poster argues, is a new communicatio...

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Main Author: Poster, Mark 1941- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken Wiley 2013
Edition:First published 1990, reprinted 2007
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Online Access:BFP01
Summary:In this path-breaking work, Mark Poster highlights the nature of the newly emerging forms of social life, in the current era. The flexibility of language which the computer allows makes the written word less certain and less concrete. The result of these changes, Poster argues, is a new communication experience, an interaction between humankind and a new kind of reality. Poster discusses the addictive properties of television and arcade video games, as well as the surveillance possibilities which the new communication technologies offer the state. His wide-ranging analysis incorporates the new
Physical Description:Online-Ressource (286 Seiten)
ISBN:9780745603278

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