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Mark S. Poster

Professor, History
School of Humanities


Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences

Professor, Film & Media Studies
School of Humanities

PH.D., New York University, 1968

Phone: (949)824-6338
Fax: 949 824-2865
Email: poster@uci.edu

University of California
230 KH
Mail Code: 3275
Irvine, CA 92697


Research
Interests
European intellectual history; critical theory; media studies
   
URL www.hnet.uci.edu/mposter/
   
Research
Abstract
I am currently working on the history of communications, and in particular on electronically mediated communications and their theoretical implications for the discipline of history. This involves an examination of theories of language and communication systems of the twentieth century from the perspective of critical theory. I am interested in the ways social communications have changed through the introduction of new technologies and how these may reinforce hegemonic culture or destabilize it.
   
  What's the Matter with the Internet? 2001
   
  Cultural History and Postmodernity (1997)
   
  The Second Media Age (1995)
   
  The Mode of Information (1990)
   
  Poststructuralism and Critical Theory (1989)
   
  Foucault, Marxism, and History (1984)
   
  Critical Theory of the Family (1978)
   
Research Center Critical Theory Institute
   
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Last updated 02/03/2005