This text aims to provide a platform for writers, scholars and activists to discuss political, economic and cultural aspects of corporate and government visions of the information superhighway. Addressing video, computer and networked communications technologies on work, education, health, entertainment, literature and art, this book investigates their problematic impact on society. Exploring relations of power and dependence fostered by new information culture, it promotes possibilities and strategies of resistance to rewiring of body psyche. With essays on future of Internet, bringing down to earth of cyberspace, sexism of electronic frontier and dangers of information, this work provides a critique of over-hyped virtual life.
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