Description: Mark Poster considers how new media--from TiVO to digital file sharing--affects society, and he traces its implications for cultural theory and progressive political change.
Review Quotes: "Engaging, informative, and thoroughly enjoyable, Information Please is a tour de force in its clear articulation of a coherent approach to the spectrum of issues arising from the penetration of information technology into every aspect of human life, from questions of global politics to the construction and protection of identities and selves in the context of digital media."--Tim Lenoir, Kimberly J. Jenkins Professor of New Technologies and Society, Duke University