The No1 Ethical retailer for Books, CD’s, DVD’s & Games
30 Day Refund Guarantee

The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory: Magic, Metaphor, Power

The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory: Magic, Metaphor, Power

by ThomasSwiss (Editor), Andrew Herman (Editor)

  • Used

    Paperback 2000

    $5.27

  • New

    Paperback 2000

    $40.89
Synopsis

Engaging the thematic issues of the Web as a space where magic, metaphor, and power converge, the chapters cover such subjects as The Web and Corporate Media Systems, Conspiracy Theories and the Web; The Economy of Cyberpromotion, The Bias of the Web, The Web and Issues of Gender, and so on.

$5.27

Save:$24.71 (82%)

Quantity

2 in stock

More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Publisher: Routledge
Published: 13 Jul 2000
ISBN 10: 0415925029
ISBN 13: 9780415925020

Media Reviews
The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory is part of a welcome academic move toward synthesizing cultural and political economy approaches... the collection as a whole is a more complex and nuanced description of the Web than many recent explorations of new information and technologies..
-Ken Hillis, Topia, A Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies
... a collection of lively, interesting essays examining such matters as the material production of the Web, the nature and circulation of its content, and how it is consumed..
- Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies
The book will be newsworthy for readers interested in a cultural studies approach to Internet-based phenomena..
- Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies
Must reading for any upper-level undergraduate or graduate-level course on computer-mediated communication.
- Choice, January 2001
It is about time that the Web and the internet are theorized this side of euphoria! The Herman and Swiss collection contains valuable meditations on the impact of the Web on society and culture, shorn of the cheerleading of Wired magazine, Negroponte, Turkle, and Gates. The book is rich in theoretical insight and empirical detail, unfolding from a stage-setting theoretical paper by Robert McChesney that situates the Web in corporate, global capitalism. This chapter alone makes the book worth buying..
-Ben Agger, Enculturation
Author Bio
Andrew Herman is Associate Professor of Sociology and Cultural Studies at Drake University. He is the author of The Better Angels Of Capitalism: Rhetoric, Narrative and Moral Identity Among Men Of The American Upper Class (Westview, 1998) and the forthcoming book, The Goods Life: Consumer Culture and Moral Identity in Contemporary America (Blackwell). Thomas Swiss is Center for the Humanities Professor of English and Director of the Web-Assisted Curriculum at Drake University. He is the author of two collections of poems, including Rough Cut (Illinois UP, 1997). He is editor or co-editor of a number of books, including Key Terms for Popular Music and Culture (Blackwell, 1999). Herman and Swiss, with John H. Sloop, previously co-edited Mapping The Beat: Contemporary Theory And Popular Music (Blackwell, 1998).