Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics

by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

Book Overview

A work that bridges media archaeology and visual culture studies argues that the Internet has emerged as a mass medium by linking control with freedom and democracy.

How has the Internet, a medium that thrives on control, been accepted as a medium of freedom? Why is freedom increasingly indistinguishable from paranoid control? In Control and Freedom, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun explores the current political and technological coupling of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262533065
• ISBN13: 9780262533065
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.6" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher