Dissertation Information for Jacqueline LambiaseNAME:
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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Who speaks in cyberspace: Powerful discourse, media muscle, and sources of knowledge on the Internet Abstract: This investigation's overall argument is that computing and communications technology, like rhetoric, are neither good nor bad, but that technology is tekhne, that is, a tool for personal communication. Computer technology more often has attracted personification and been given agency since humans use these machines as a kind of artificial dream intelligence to confront problems too difficult to solve in face-to-face negotiations. Scholars, including George Landow and others, link cyberspace to the postmodern condition, while popular culture images link the internet to democratic ideals. Cyberspace has in many fields drawn utopian visioning of all sorts. In this, I propose, cyberspace also resembles an Enlightenment project, a new colony for exploitation, a land rush, even a rape. Cyberspace's relationship with technology and its starring role in many salvation narratives may be perpetuating modernist tendencies in language, culture, economics, and politics. |
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- David Ndirangu Wachanga - University of North Texas (2007)
- Julie George Thomas - University of North Texas (2010)