Information Please: Culture and Politics in the Age of Digital Machines

by Mark Poster

Book Overview

Information Please advances the ongoing critical project of the media scholar Mark Poster: theorizing the social and cultural effects of electronically mediated information. In this book Poster conceptualizes a new relation of humans to information machines, a relation that avoids privileging either the human or the machine but instead focuses on the structures of their interactions. Synthesizing a broad range of critical theory, he explores...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822338394
• ISBN13: 9780822338390
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"