Mediapolis: Aspects of Texts, Hypertexts, and Multimedial Communication Book

	Preface
I	Texts, Hypertexts and Narratology
	Towards a Narratology of Holistic Texts. The Textual Theory of Hypertext	3
	Hypertextuality	21
	Multimedia Literature, "Exploratory Games" and their Hypertextuality	44
II	Semiotic and Philosophical Approaches
	Media as Meaningful Gestures. Phenomenology, Inner Time Consciousness and the Possibilities of Media Philosophy	57
	Media and Languages. From Nelson Goodman's Philosophy of Languages to a Scheme for a Semiotic-Philological Theory of Communication	80
	Aspects of Multimedial Communication	114
	The Philosophical Foundations of the Work of Film Director Jean-Luc Godard	146
III	Aspects of Media and Technology Criticism
	The Structural Constraint of "Concision" as it is Used in the Discourse Style of American Commercial Broadcasting	165
	Cybersex: A Desire for Disembodiment. On the Meaning of the Human Being in Cyber Discourse	203
	The Internet, "Data Highways" and the Information Society. A Comment on the Rhetoric of the Electronic Sublime	243
	Rock Discourse, Mass Mediations and Cultural Identity. The Imaginary England of Pop-Poet Stephen Patrick Morrissey	291
IV	Media Cultural Developments
	Internet and New Media in Russia. Some Historical and Contemporary Developments of Telecommunications and Information Technologies in Russia	321
	Seeing You, Seeing Me in the Global, Virtual Space. Tomorrow's Working, Learning and Leisure Environment	336
	More than Sweaters and Shocking Pictures. On the Corporate Philosophy and Communications Strategy of Benetton	358
	Name Index	381
	Subject Index	384