The romantic self and the politics of internet commercialization.
This essay looks at some examples of ways that certain pre-existing imaginary forms of 'selfhood' have been culturally mapped onto historically pivotal moments in the Internet's development. It focuses less on how technologies have shaped culture than on the reverse: on certain ways that culture has...
| Publicado en: | Cultural Studies Vol. 17; no. 5; pp. 648 - 669 |
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