Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- I. Texts, Hypertexts and Narratology -- Towards a Narratology of Holistic Texts. The Textual Theory of Hypertext / HESS-LÜTTICH, ERNEST W. ¿. -- Hypertextuality / CICCONI, SERGIO -- Multimedia Literature, "Exploratory Games" and their Hypertextuality / LEDGERWOOD, MIKLE D. -- II. Semiotic and Philosophical Approaches -- Media as Meaningful Gestures. Phenomenology, Inner Time Consciousness and the Possibilities of Media Philosophy / KONITZER, WERNER -- Media and Languages. From Nelson Goodman's Philosophy of Languages to a Scheme for a Semiotic-Philological Theory of Communication / LA MATINA, MARCELLO -- Aspects of Multimedial Communication / TEOBALDELLI, PAOLO -- The Philosophical Foundations of the Work of Film Director Jean-Luc Godard / YLÄ-KOTOLA, MAURI -- III. Aspects of Media and Technology Criticism -- The Structural Constraint of "Concision" as it is Used in the Discourse Style of American Commercial Broadcasting / DELLINGER, BRETT -- Cybersex: ¿ Desire for Disembodiment. On the Meaning of the Human Being in Cyber Discourse / EERIKÄINEN, HANNU -- The Internet, "Data Highways" and the Information Society A Comment on the Rhetoric of the Electronic Sublime / INKINEN, SAM -- Rock Discourse, Mass Mediations and Cultural Identity. The Imaginary England of Pop-Poet Stephen Patrick Morrissey / KALLIONIEMI, KARI -- IV. Media Cultural Developments -- Internet and New Media in Russia. Some Historical and Contemporary Developments of Telecommunications and Information Technologies in Russia / HÖLLER, HERWIG G. -- Seeing You, Seeing Me in the Global, Virtual Space. Tomorrow's Working, Learning and Leisure Environment / NUOPPONEN, ANITA / KUNELIUS, ESA -- More than Sweaters and Shocking Pictures. On the Corporate Philosophy and Communications Strategy of Benetton / NISKANEN, TUIJA -- Name Index -- Subject Index -- Backmatter
