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The Digital Nexus Identity, Agency, and Political Engagement

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The trauma and tension in the daily lives of citizens as described here by McLuhan was only intensified by the arrival of digital media and the Web in the following decades. The rapidly evolving digital realm held a powerful promise for creative and constructive good—a promise so alluring that much of the inquiry into this new environment focused on its potential rather than its profound impact on every sphere of civic, commercial, and private life. The totalizing scope of the combined effects of computerization and the worldwide network are the subject of the essays in The Digital Nexus, a volume that responds to McLuhan’s request for a “special study” of the tsunami-like transformation of the communication landscape

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Series Title

Cultural Dialectics

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352 pages

Publisher

Canada : AU Press., 2016

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Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781771991292.01

Classification

352 pages

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text

Media Type

computer

Carrier Type

online resource

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Subject(s)

Communication Studies,
Cultural Studies, Technology and Society

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Statement of Responsibility

Raphael Foshay

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Arin

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