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Connected: Engagements with Media

From the frontiers of cyberspace to Tibetans in exile, from computer bulletin boards to faxes, film, and videotape, the ongoing and othen startling evolution of media continues to generate fresh new avenues for cultural criticism, political activism, and self-reflection. How is contemorary life affected by this stunning proliferation of information technologies? How does the Internet influence, and perhaps alter, users' experience of community and thier sense of self? In what ways 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. Blending the immediacy of interviews, the objectivity of journalism, and the intellectual rigor of scholarship, 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.

2. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett. The Electronic Vernacular.

3. Ron Burnett. A Torn Page, Ghosts on the Computer Screen, Words, Images, Labyrinths: Exploring the Frontiers of Cyberspace.

4. Christopher Pound. Framed, or How the Internet Set Me Up.

5. Mazyar Lotfalian. A Tale of an Electronic Community.

6. Meg McLagan. Computing for Tibet: Virtual Politics in the Post-Cold War Era.

7. Juanita Mohammed and Alexandra Juhasz. Knowing Each Other through AIDS Video: A Dialogue between AIDS Activist Videomakers.

8. Kim Laughlin. Representing "Bhopal".

9. Kim Laughlin and John Monberg. Horizons of Interactivity: Making the News at Time Warner.

10. Joe Austin. Rewriting New York City.

11. Dorinne Kondo. Shades of Twilight: Anna Deavere Smith and Twilight: Los Angeles 1992.

12. Fred Myers and Rayna Rapp. Producing and Mediating Science as a Worldview in Postwar America: Two Interviews.

13. Ruth Elizabeth Teer-Tomaselli. DEBI Does Democracy: Recollecting Democratic Voter Education in the Electronic Media Prior to the South African Elections.