Product Description
Transcending recent attempts to pigeonhole 'the information revolution', this book shows how the paradoxical aspects of new media and the Internet (is it masculine or feminine? Does it mean peace or war?) are the peculiarly intense expression of the contradictions underlying our whole society. Andrew Calcutt is an enthusiastic champion of the potential for new communications technology, and a trenchant critic of the culture of fear which prevents its realisation.
About the Author
ANDREW CALCUTT is a frequent contributor to
LM Magazine and a commissioning editor at
Web-Content Providers Cyberia Online. His work has also appeared in
Arena, Futures, The Idler and The Modern Review. Previous publications include
Arrested Development: Pop Culture and the Erosion of Adulthood, and
Beat: the Iconography of Victimhood from the Beats to Princess Diana.