Connected: Engagements with Media
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From the frontiers of cyberspace to Tibetans in exile, from computer bulletin boards to faxes, film, and videotape, the ongoing and often startling evolution of media continues to generate fresh new avenues for cultural criticism, political activism, and self-reflection. How is contemporary life affected by this stunning proliferation of information technologies? How does the Internet influence, and perhaps alter, users' experience of community and their sense of self? In what way are giant media conglomerates implicated in these far-reaching developments? Connected, the third volume in the groundbreaking and highly acclaimed Late Editions series, confronts these provocative questions through unique experiments with the interview format. It explores both the new pathways being forged through media and the predicaments of those struggling to find their way in the twilight of the twentieth century.
Introduction to the Volume and Reintroduction to the Series11The Electronic Vernacular212A Torn Page, Ghosts on the Computer Screen, Words, Images, Labyrinths: Exploring the Frontiers of Cyberspace673Framed, or How the Internet Set Me Up994A Tale of an Electronic Community1175Computing for Tibet: Virtual Politics in the Post-Cold War Era1596Knowing Each Other through AIDS Video: A Dialogue between AIDS Activist Videomakers1957Representing "Bhopal"2218Horizons of Interactivity: Making the News at Time Warner2499Rewriting New York City27110Shades of Twilight: Anna Deavere Smith and Twilight: Los Angeles 199231311Producing and Mediating Science as a Worldview in Postwar America: Two Interviews34912DEBI Does Democracy: Recollecting Democratic Voter Education in the Electronic Media Prior to the South African Elections377Appendix: Selected Excerpts from the Collective Editorial Meeting, 30 April 1994423Contributors433Index435
