Cyberspace, Virtuality Reality, and Critical Theory: Economic Contexts and Implications

The Economics of Digital Word and Image

• Commercializatons: Cybertown
• Arthur Kroker and Michael Weinstein. "The Political Economy of Virtual Reality: Pan-Capitalism"
• Robins and Webster, "Cybernetic Capitalism"
• Herber I. Schiller, "Media, Technology, and the Market"
• Yousuf Dhamee on Questions of Intellectual Property
  • Introduction
  • Problems
  • False Analogies
  • Linking Documents
  • Contributory Infringement
  • Logos in the Net
• Winner Langdon, "Silicon Valley Mystery House"

Dystopian Economic Visions: the Commercialized World of Cyberpunk

• Ian Jones, Multinational Angst
• Jacob George, Stephenson's Mafia
• Wayne Huang, Just one word ... Information
• Laura Lee, Snowcrash's Ethnic Los Angeles
• William Peña, Capitalism: The Great Cyber-[Un]Equalizer?
• Brian D. Hardy, Stephenson, Gibson, and U2

Resources (courtesy of David Rodowick's U. of Rochester website)

• Steve Mann's Webcam
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Electronic Privacy Information Center
• Center for Democracy and Technology
• Cypherpunk
• The Cyphernomicon

Recent Book Publications

• Linda Low, Economics of Information Technology and the Media. Singapore: World Scientific/Singapore UP, 2000.