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Synopsis
Examines the myths of the digital era and other technological advances--such as the telephone and television--and explains why people feel compelled to believe that digital technology is destined to open up a new world.
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Vincent Mosco is Canada Research Chair in Communication and Society in the Department of Sociology at Queen's University and the author of The Political Economy of Communication: Rethinking and Renewal.
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"An often brilliant exegesis of how postindustrial thinking has come to occupy the heartland of consciousness, and of the wrenching social consequences that have attended this transition. A book that is moving, as well as erudite."
--Dan Schiller, Professor of Library and Information Science, Communication, and Media Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Witty, scholarly, and very readable The Digital Sublime limns a skeptical yet sympathetic portrait of the cyberbubble of the 1990s within its technical, cultural and economic landscape. By framing it in the context of ancient and modern myths, Mosco deftly focuses for us a sharper image of our times."
--Anthony G. Oettinger, Chairman, Program on Information Resources Policy, Harvard University
"In *The Digital Sublime*, Vincent Mosco's elegant and nuanced analysis of our technological mythos demonstrates yet again the value of melding cultural studies and political economy."
--Eileen Meehan, Lemuel Heidel Brown Chair in Media and Political Economy, Manship School of Mass Communication, Louisiana State University
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Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. The digital era promises, as did many other technological developmentsbefore it, the transformation of society: with the computer, we can transcend time, space, and politics-as-usual. In The Digital Sublime, Vincent Mosco goes beyond theusual stories of technological breakthrough and economic meltdown to explore themyths constructed around the new digital technology and why we feel compelled tobelieve in them. He tells us that what kept enthusiastic investors in the dotcom erabidding up stocks even after the crash had begun was not willful ignorance of thelaws of economics but belief in the myth that cyberspace was opening up a newworld.Myths are not just falsehoods that can be disproved, Mosco points out, butstories that lift us out of the banality of everyday life into the possibility ofthe sublime. He argues that if we take what we know about cyberspace and situate itwithin what we know about culture -- specifically the central post-Cold War myths ofthe end of history, geography, and politics -- we will add to our knowledge aboutthe digital world; we need to see it 'with both eyes' -- that is, to understand itboth culturally and materially.After examining the myths of cyberspace and goingback in history to look at the similar mythic pronouncements prompted by pasttechnological advances -- the telephone, the radio, and television, among others --Mosco takes us to Ground Zero. In the final chapter he considers the twin towers ofthe World Trade Center -- our icons of communication, information, and trade -- andtheir part in the politics, economics, and myths of cyberspace. Interpreting the myths of the digital age: why webelieved in the power of cyberspace to open up a new world. Seller Inventory # 45427
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