Going beyond recent attempts to pigeonhole the information revolution as either the information highway to utopia or the devil's own dystopia, this book cuts through the furor surrounding the Internet and shows how the paradoxical aspects of new media are an expression of the inherent contradictions underlying society as a whole. Andrew Calcutt is an enthusiastic champion of the potential for new communications technology and a trenchant critic of the culture of fear and self-limitation which prevents its realization. At a time when events and social processes are often assumed to be beyond our control, he seeks to accentuate the positive capabilities of human beings and the technologies which we have created.
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“A sophisticated and readable survey of the myriad facets of cyber-culture.” —Future Survey
“This is a marvelous book for use in both graduate and undergraduate courses in media and society, new technologies, or urban anthropology.” —Communication Booknotes Quarterly
“This is a marvelous book for use in both graduate and undergraduate courses in media and society, new technologies, or urban anthropology.” —Communication Booknotes Quarterly
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Andrew Calcutt is a commentator on cyberculture for various magazines and commissioning editor for the Web-content provider Cyberia Online.
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Bill Gates, New Labour, The Guardian, Big Brother, Gulf War, William Gibson, Financial Times, Silicon Valley, Douglas Rushkoff, Electronic Frontier Foundation, The Independent, The Observer, Big Ideas, New Statesman, Tony Blair, Bruce Sterling, Business Week, John Perry Barlow, Sadie Plant, Second World War, Third Wave, Whole Earth, Barry Diller, Howard Rheingold, Institute of Contemporary Arts New!
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- Glimpses of Heaven, Visions of Hell: Virtual Reality and Its Implications by Barrie Sherman on page 132, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Wilderness Man: The Amazing True Story of Grey Owl by Lovat Dickson on page 139, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Click On Democracy: The Internet's Power To Change Political Apathy Into Civic Action by Grant Reeher in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Researching Children's Popular Culture: The Cultural Spaces of Childhood (Media, Education and Culture) by Claudia Mitchell in Back Matter
- Click On Democracy: The Internet's Power To Change Political Apathy Into Civic Action by Grant Reeher in Back Matter
- Time and the Literary (Essays from the English Institute) by Karen Newman on page 98
- Time and the Literary (Essays from the English Institute) by Karen Newman on page 98
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