The Second Media Age

This book examines the implications of new communication technologies in the light of the most recent work in social and cultural theory and argues that new developments in electronic media, such as the Internet and Virtual Reality, justify the designation of a "second media age".

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

Theoretical Reconsiderations
Social Theory and the New Media
Postmodern Virtualities
Postmodernity and the Politics of Multiculturalism
The Mode of Information and Postmodernity
Databases as Discourse, or Electronic Interpellations
Critical Theory and TechnoCulture: Habermas and Baudrillard
Medias
Politics in the Mode of Information: Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing
RoboBody
What Does Wotan Want? Ambivalent Feminism in Wagner's Ring
War in the Mode of Information
Notes
Index
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