Description
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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments, Introduction: The World Wide Web as Magic, Metaphor, and Power, 1 So Much for the Magic of Technology and the Free Market: The World Wide Web and the Corporate Media System, 2 Webs of Myth and Power: Connectivity and the New Computer Technopolis, 3 Webs of Conspiracy, 4 Red Alert!: Rhetorics of the World Wide Web and Friction Free Capitalism, 5 Yo-Ho-Ho and a Server of Warez: Internet Software Piracy and the New Global Information Economy, 6 Shit Happens: Numerology, Destiny, and Control on the Web, 7 Hypertext Links: The Ethic of the Index and Its Space-Time Effects, 8 The Economy of Cyberpromotion: Awards on the World Wide Web, 9 The Bias of the Web, 10 Baud Girls and Cargo Cults: A Story about Celebrity, Community, and Profane Illumination on the Web, 11 Literacy Beyond Books: Reading When All the World's a Web, 12 Cultural Technologies and the Evolution of Technological Cultures, 13 Error 404: Doubting the Web, Bibliography, Contributors, Index
