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just another hot market ready for exploitation by America’s ravenous
corporations? … Can we build a new kind of politics? Can we construct
a more civil society with our powerful technologies? Are we extending
the evolution of freedom among human beings? Or are we nothing
more than a great, wired babble, pissing into the digital wind?’ J. Katz,
‘Birth of a digital nation’, Wired, vol. 5.04 (1996).
38. A European Commission policy document proclaiming that ‘new
services and technologies empower the consumer and the citizen’,
but which never explains what the distinction is, is a typical example
of such a comfortable rhetorical elision. European Commission,
Convergence Green Paper: Working Document, <http://www.ispo.cec.be/
convergencegp/gpworkdoc.html> (1998).
39. H. Rheingold, Virtual Community: Finding Connection in a Computerized
World (London: Vintage, 1993).
40. B. Connery, ‘IMHO: authority and egalitarian rhetoric in the virtual
coffeehouse’, in D. Porter (ed.), Internet Culture (London: Routledge,
1997).
41. D. Kellner, ‘Techno-politics, new technologies, and the new public
spheres’, <http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations> (1998).
42. M. Poster, The Second Media Age (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1995); What’s
the Matter with the Internet? (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,
2001).
43. M. Poster, ‘Cyberdemocracy: internet and the public sphere’, in Porter
(ed.), Internet Culture, p. 214.
44. L. Manovich, The Language of New Media (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press,
2001).
45. D. Schiller, Digital Capitalism: Networking the Global Market System
(Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999).
46. J. Baudrillard, In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities, or, the End of the Social
and Other Essays, trans. P. Foss (New York: Semiotexte, 1983); D. Morley
and K. Robins, Spaces of Identity: Global Media, Electronic Landscapes and
Cultural Boundaries (London: Routledge, 1995), pp. 194–5.
47. P. Lunenfeld, Snap to Grid: A User’s Guide to Digital Arts, Media and
Cultures (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000).
48. G.P. Landow, Hypertext 2.0 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,
1997).
49. R. Barthes, S/Z, trans. R. Miller (New York: Hill and Wang, 1974).
50. G. Deleuze and F. Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and
Schizophrenia (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987).
51. J.D. Bolter and R. Grusin, Remediation: Understanding New Media
(Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999).
52. Manovich, The Language of New Media, pp. 30–1.
53. R. Williams, Television, Technology and Cultural Form (London: Fontana,
1974); Towards 2000 (London: Chatto and Windus, 1982).
54. S. Plant, ‘On the mobile: the effects of mobile telephones on social and
individual life’, <http://www.motorola.com/mediacenter> (2001).
55. G. Myerson, Heidegger, Habermas and the Mobile Phone (Duxford: Icon
Books, 2001).

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