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

Contents

Acknowledgments....................ix
Introduction....................1
1. Perfect Transmissions: Evil Bert Laden....................9
2. Postcolonial Theory and Global Media....................26
3. The Information Empire....................46
4. Citizens, Digital Media, and Globalization....................67
5. Identity Theft and Media....................87
6. The Aesthetics of Distracting Media....................116
7. The Good, the Bad, and the Virtual....................139
8. Psychoanalysis, the Body, and Information Machines....................161
9. Who Controls Digital Culture?....................185
10. Everyday (Virtual) Life....................211
11. Consumers, Users, and Digital Commodities....................231
12. Future Advertising: Dick's Ubik and the Digital Ad....................250
Conclusion....................267
Notes....................269
References....................281
Index....................299