كتاب
The digital sublime: myth, power, and cyberspace
| العنوان: | The digital sublime: myth, power, and cyberspace |
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| المؤلفون: | Mosco, Vincent. |
| بيانات النشر: | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2004. |
| سنة النشر: | 2004 |
| وصف مادي: | ix, 218 p. ; 24 cm. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Information society., Cyberspace -- Economic aspects., Cyberspace -- Political aspects., Telecommunication., Myth. |
| الوصف: | "In The Digital Sublime Vincent Mosco goes beyond the usual stories of technological breakthrough and economic meltdown to explore the myths constructed around the new digital technology and why we feel compelled to believe in them. He tells us that what kept enthusiastic investors in the dotcom era bidding up stocks even after the crash had begun was not willful ignorance of the laws of economics but belief in the myth that cyberspace was opening up a new world." "Myths are not just falsehoods that can be disproved, Mosco points out, but stories that lift us out of the banality of everyday life into the possibility of the sublime. He argues that if we take what we know about cyberspace and situate it within what we know about culture - specifically the central post-Cold War myths of the end of history, geography, and politics - we will add to our knowledge about the digital world; we need to see it "with both eyes"--That is, to understand it both culturally and materially." "After examining the myths of cyberspace and going back in history to look at the similar mythic pronouncements prompted by past technological advances - the telephone, the radio, and television, among others - Mosco takes us to Ground Zero. In the final chapter he considers the twin towers of the World Trade Center - our icons of communication, information, and trade - and their part in the politics, economics, and myths of cyberspace."--Jacket. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | The secret of life -- Myth and cyberspace -- Cyberspace and the end of history -- Loose ends : the death of distance, the end of politics -- When old myths were new : the ever-ending story -- From ground zero to cyberspace and back again. |
| Original Identifier: | ocm52819749 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-262-13439-2 0-262-13439-X |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-211) and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.009328308.3 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
Full Text Finder | ردمك: | 9780262134392 026213439X |
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