Grab Your Edition White Noise: An A-Z Of The Contradictions In Cyberculture Fashioned By Andrew Calcutt Disseminated As Volume

is the second time I've gone through this book, It's written in short sections, and before I'd just picked out the relevant ones, Last time I read it, it was a fairly recent book beginning to show its age,

Reading it this time was different: fifteen years in cybertime makes this book history, In that respect, what remains the same and what is different, and what has exceeded predictions and what has failed to get any nearer, is the most interesting part of the book.


For example, I'd all but forgotten about the idea of 'narrowcasting' news that some news corporation would deliver news tailored to the individual.
Instead, most people pick'n'mix, leaving news providers desperate to find an audience they can make money from,

Virtual Reality is having another surge of interest, but really hasn't moved on much in theyears since the book was written.
The discussion is just as relevant though, as it is about how humans interact with the technology: technological progress is only a part of VR becoming successful.


'If shopping. . becomes one of the core activities of digital communications', 'If'! It most certainly has, and this reflects a bigger change over the lastyears, Much of the digital has become ordinary, even if the 'digital' prefix is still added, Analogue, a dreadful term that assumes a commonality that does not exist, is rarely retrofitted to that which is predigital.
Much of the world we live in in the west is digitised and we are not aware of it: it is simply how things are done now.


On the politics of academic discourse, Calcutt is clearly a writer resisted the rise of postmodernist theory, and was highly critical of its morally neutral stance something which, arguably, was overplayed by some cultural theorists and their most keen detractors.
He has a particularly entertaining dig at cybertheorists in 'subject/object',
Going beyond recent attempts to pigeonhole the information revolution as either the information highway to utopia or the devil's own dystopia, this book cuts through the furor surrounding the Internet and shows how the paradoxical aspects of new media are an expression of the inherent contradictions underlying society as a whole.
Andrew Calcutt is an enthusiastic champion of the potential for new communications technology and a trenchant critic of the culture of fear and selflimitation which prevents its realization.
At a time when events and social processes are often assumed to be beyond our control, he seeks to accentuate the positive capabilities of human beings and the technologies which we have created.

Dr Andrew Calcutt is the hackademic former journalist turned academic who left Channel Cyberia one of the earliest online magazines in the UK to set up the University of East Londons first journalism programme BA Journalism and Print Media.
His academic career is as old as UELs Docklands Campus, which opened in, Dr Andrew Calcutt is the 'hackademic' former journalist turned academic who left Channel Cyberia one of the earliest online magazines in the UK to set up the University of East London's first journalism programme BA Journalism and Print Media.
His academic career is as old as UEL's Docklands Campus, which opened in, sitelink.