Publisher:
Cambridge Scholars Pub, Newcastle upon Tyne
The Internet is nothing less than a medium for the indiscriminate and global dissemination of information if we take ""information"" in its cybernetic sense as bits of data - any data. As such, it is also a massive, amorphous, rhizomic collection of...
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Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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The Internet is nothing less than a medium for the indiscriminate and global dissemination of information if we take ""information"" in its cybernetic sense as bits of data - any data. As such, it is also a massive, amorphous, rhizomic collection of substantiated facts, guesswork, fantasy, madness, debate, criminal energy, big business, stupidity, brilliance, all in all a seemingly limitless multiplication of voices, all clamouring to be heard. It is a medium which proliferates stories, narrat
The Internet is nothing less than a medium for the indiscriminate and global dissemination of information if we take ""information"" in its cybernetic sense as bits of data - any data. As such, it is also a massive, amorphous, rhizomic collection of substantiated facts, guesswork, fantasy, madness, debate, criminal energy, big business, stupidity, brilliance, all in all a seemingly limitless multiplication of voices, all clamouring to be heard. It is a medium which proliferates stories, narrat..
Internet fictions
Published:
2009
Publisher:
Cambridge Scholars Pub, Newcastle upon Tyne
The Internet is nothing less than a medium for the indiscriminate and global dissemination of information if we take ""information"" in its cybernetic sense as bits of data - any data. As such, it is also a massive, amorphous, rhizomic collection of...
more
The Internet is nothing less than a medium for the indiscriminate and global dissemination of information if we take ""information"" in its cybernetic sense as bits of data - any data. As such, it is also a massive, amorphous, rhizomic collection of substantiated facts, guesswork, fantasy, madness, debate, criminal energy, big business, stupidity, brilliance, all in all a seemingly limitless multiplication of voices, all clamouring to be heard. It is a medium which proliferates stories, narrat
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CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; I. CLASSIC POINTS OF DEPARTURE; HYPERTEXT AND STREAMS OF CONSCIOUSNESS; WEB SIDE STORIES; II. APPROPRIATIONS AND INFLECTIONS OF THE CLASSIC PATTERNS; FAN FICTION; PLAYING WITH AND POLICING LANGUAGE USE AND TEXTUALITY IN FAN FICTION; MIRROR FICTIONS; BENDING GENDER; III. TALES WITH A SPIN; CONSUMED BY ROMANCE; "I LOVE MER/DER. WHEN THEY AREN'T TOGETHER, I DIE"; FROM INTERNET FRAUD TO INTERACTIVE FICTION; CONTROLLED DEMOLITIONS; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
