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cybernetics, 55–7, 192 disembodiment, 36, 100, 157, 159–161, 178,
cybersex, 161 200, 207
cybersociety, xi, 44–82 disembodied communities, 194, 225n
cyberspace, xiii, 1, 2, 4, 9, 11, 18n, 42, 44–7, ‘disintermediation’, 137–8
49, 51–2, 54–5, 57, 60–2, 72, 82n, 84, 89, dot.com stocks, 96–7
101, 117, 119, 133, 138, 140, 150, 175, Durkheim, Emile, 52, 59, 121n, 133, 152–3,
177, 186, 189–93, 195, 196, 203, 222, 223n 154, 189
as electronic agora, 60, 195, 197, 199–200 community, 167–9, 175–6, 182, 194
as new public sphere, 72–5, 120n conscience collective, 110, 167–70, 175
as routine, 177 cult of the individual, 29, 110
as revelation, 190 ‘organic solidarity’, 168
and ‘cyberbrats’, 187 DVD, 65–6, 100
and global telecommunications, 46
and the Internet, 4, 46–7, 48, 50, 114 e-commerce, 114
Judaeo-Christian narratives of, 190 economy, 173
and virtual flânerie, 199–201 effects analysis, 4, 21, 42n, 56, 58, 82n, 102,
and virtual reality, ix, 44–6, 49, 122, 201 115, 119, 123, 133, 136, 166n
cyber-terrorism, 11 electrical-analogue time-worlds, 49
cyber-utopia, 52, 75, 83, 115, 120n, 191, 194 electronically based communications, 8
electronically extended relations, 3, 39,
Dallas Smythe, 43n 49, 54, 55
datacasting, 84, 103–5, 106, 120n email, 3, 17n, 47, 50, 55, 60, 61, 78, 79, 94,
Dayan, D., 107, 208, 216 97, 104, 116, 120n, 132, 143–4, 145,
Debord, Guy, 5, 27, 53, 68, 90 150, 166n, 204, 207
spectacle, 31–4, 89, 118 embodiment, xiii, 2, 12, 14, 16, 36, 42, 47,
deconstruction, 5, 6 55, 60–3, 67, 69, 73, 78, 80, 84, 90, 92,
Deleuze, Gilles, rhizome, 10 94, 99, 137, 138, 141, 145–146, 154,
democracy, 23, 43n, 73, 76, 77, 82n, 134, 157–8, 160–1, 170, 188, 192, 196, 200,
207, 208 203, 207, 210, 217, 223n, 224n, 225n
and cyberspace, 24, 72–5, 80, 191 emoticons, 16, 55, 82n, 161
and interaction, 80–1 Endemol Corporation, 219
democratization, 9–11, 23, 84, 207, 220 Erdring, R., 90, 194, 224n
Dempsey, Ken, 175, 194 European traditions in media studies, 4
Derrida, Jacques, 6, 20, 51, 121n, 129, 131,
133, 165n, 223n face-to-face interactions, x, xii, 2, 8, 11–12,
dissemination, 126–8 14, 15–17, 17n, 49, 54, 63, 71–2, 78, 81n,
‘hermeneutic deciphering’, 126, 131 85, 87, 92, 94, 99–100, 108, 111, 114,
logocentrism, 6, 11, 75, 123–4, 127–9, 116, 118, 119n, 123n, 132, 135, 136–9,
130–2, 135, 138, 141, 146, 166n 144–6, 148–51, 154–6, 158–9, 161, 164,
phonocentrism, 6, 124, 129, 132, 166n, 178–80, 194–5, 197–9, 204–5, 207,
135–6, 139 211, 221–2, 224n, 225n
polysemia, 126–8 extended by CMC, 54–5, 63, 106, 118, 203
writing-as-language, 131 fandom, 87, 112, 153, 211, 212–13, 214
Dery, Mark, 100 on-line fan clubs, 87
‘escape velocity’, 187 Featherstone, Mike, the flâneur, 197, 199–201
dialogicity, 40, 77–9, 136, 137, 146–7, 164, MTV, 201
203, 205 Feenberg, A., 140
digital, ‘digital age’, 10 Felski, Rita, 75
digital divide, 58, 187 Fidonet, 47
‘digital nation’, 73 Fiore, Quentin and Marshall McLuhan,
technology, 2, 7, 8, 19n, 45, 49, 60, 64, 41, 72, 99, 103, 118, 121n,186
65–6, 82n, 100, 103, 108, 114, 115, first media age, 6, 34, 95, 120n, 140
130, 183–184 and the second media age, ix, 4, 7–11,
digitalization, 65–6, 164 12, 17, 43n, 44, 50, 52, 67, 69, 71,
disembedding, 162–3 82n, 83–91, 97, 110, 114, 140, 194, 204