1. Edition June 1995 21.90 Euro 1995. 200 Pages, Softcover ISBN 978-0-7456-1396-3 - John Wiley & Sons
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Detailed description This book examines the implications of new communication technologies in the light of the most recent work in social and cultural theory and argues that new developments in electronic media, such as the Internet and Virtual Reality, justify the designation of a "second media age".
From the contents Part I: Theoretical Reconsiderations: .
1. Social Theory and the New Media.
2. Postmodern Virtualities.
3. Postmodernity and the Politics of Multiculturalism.
4. The Mode of Information and Postmodernity.
5. Databases as Discourse, or Electronic Interpellations.
6. Critical Theory and TechnoCulture: Habermas and Baudrillard.
Part II: Medias: .
7. Politics in the Mode of Information: Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. .
8. RoboBody.
9. What Does Wotan Want? Ambivalent Feminism in Wagner's Ring. .
