Mark Poster (July 5, 1941 – October 10, 2012) was Professor Emeritus of History and Film and Media Studies at UC Irvine, where he also taught in the Critical Theory Emphasis. He received his Ph.D. from New York University in 1968, and his research interests included European Intellectual and Cultural History, Existentialism, Marxism, Critical Theory, and Media Studies. He was known for surveying the work of Lefebvre, Sartre and Foucault. He applied the ideas of these and other French theorists to digital new media of the late Twentieth and early Twenty-first century (including television, databases, hypertext and the Internet). He sought to politicize the issue of the use and development of the Internet by emphasizing the possibilities of the Internet for liberatory political change, while acknowledging the existence of a deep digital divide, as well as the interests of transnational corporations and national governments. Poster was also co-editor of the "Electronic Mediations" book series at the University of Minnesota Press, which includes almost forty titles which explore the humanistic and social implications of the Internet, virtual reality technologies, video games, literary hypertexts, and new media art forms.
Fecha de nacimiento
1941-07-05
Año de nacimiento
1941
Fecha de defunción
2012-10-10
Año de defunción
2012
Era
20th-century philosophy
Contemporary philosophy
Principal interés
Intellectual history
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