Mark S. Poster

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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, Irvine
230 KH
Mail Code: 3275
Irvine, CA 92697
Research Interests
European intellectual history; critical theory; media studies
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.
Publications
What's the Matter with the Internet?, Mark Poster, 2001
What's the Matter with the Internet? 2001
Cultural History and Postmodernity (1997)
The Second Media Age (1995)
The Second Media Age, Mark Poster, 1995
The Mode of Information (1990)
Poststructuralism and Critical Theory (1989)
Foucault, Marxism, and History (1984)
Critical Theory of the Family (1978)
Research Centers
Critical Theory Institute
Last updated
02/03/2005