The skin of culture : investigating the new electronic reality / Derrick De Kerckhove ; edited by Christopher Dewdney

By:

De Kerckhove, Derrick

Contributor(s):

Dewdney, Christopher, 1951-

Material type:

TextPublication details: London : Kogan Page Pub., c1997Description: xxii, 226 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:

074942480x (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

306.46

Contents:

Techno-psychology; television; the alphabetic programme; cyberspace; roadside romance; the stress of speed; Babel and Jericho; cyberdesign; oral versus literal listening; media and gender; degrees of reality in the media and in culture; mass, speed and cyberculture; analogue and digital mindframes; the skin of culture; volcanic art; cyborg ecologies; collective intelligence; changing our minds; psychotechnologies.

Summary: This bold vision of the electronic media and the nature of reality in a world wired to technology proposes and explores how this new technology has affected modern culture, from democracy and art, to language and literacy.

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Cover image	Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Materials specified	Vol info	URL	Copy number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds	Item hold queue priority	Course reserves
	Main	RTC Library Main opac		Main TEST		304.6 DEW					Available			30010705

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-226)

This bold vision of the electronic media and the nature of reality in a world wired to technology proposes and explores how this new technology has affected modern culture, from democracy and art, to language and literacy.