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Network apocalypse : visions of the end in an age of Internet media / edited by Robert Glenn Howard.

Contributor(s): Howard, Robert Glenn [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Bible in the modern world: 36.; Apocalypse and popular culture: 3.Publisher: Sheffield : Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2011Description: xiii, 232 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 190753413X; 9781907534133Subject(s): Internet -- Religious aspects | Apocalyptic literature -- Computer network resources | Apocalypse in mass media | Bible. Revelation -- In mass media | Bible. Revelation -- Computer network resourcesBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Introduction : visions of the end in an age of internet media / Robert Glenn Howard -- On the outskirts of the new global village : computer-mediated prophecy and the digital afterlife / Andrew Fergus Wilson -- From peak oil to the apocalypse : cultural myths and the public understanding of scientific models / William A. Stahl -- YouTube and apocalyptic rhetoric : broadcasting yourself to the ends of the world / Dennis Beesley -- Projects of control and termination : transcendence in the age of mechanical reproduction / J.L. Schatz -- Baracknophobia and the paranoid style : visions of Obama as the Antichrist on the World Wide Web / Amarnath Amarasingam -- Rationalization of the Rapture : the culture of managing risk on the youvebeenleftbehind.com web site / Salvador Jimenez Murguia -- Pan-Islamist networks of the apocalypse : mobilizing diasporic Muslim youth on Facebook / David Drissel -- 'We all stray from our paths sometimes' : morality and survival in Fallout 3 / James Schirmer -- The media-savvy ritual suicides : how the Heaven's Gate group co-opted institutional media and created a new tradition / Robert Glenn Howard.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction : visions of the end in an age of internet media / Robert Glenn Howard -- On the outskirts of the new global village : computer-mediated prophecy and the digital afterlife / Andrew Fergus Wilson -- From peak oil to the apocalypse : cultural myths and the public understanding of scientific models / William A. Stahl -- YouTube and apocalyptic rhetoric : broadcasting yourself to the ends of the world / Dennis Beesley -- Projects of control and termination : transcendence in the age of mechanical reproduction / J.L. Schatz -- Baracknophobia and the paranoid style : visions of Obama as the Antichrist on the World Wide Web / Amarnath Amarasingam -- Rationalization of the Rapture : the culture of managing risk on the youvebeenleftbehind.com web site / Salvador Jimenez Murguia -- Pan-Islamist networks of the apocalypse : mobilizing diasporic Muslim youth on Facebook / David Drissel -- 'We all stray from our paths sometimes' : morality and survival in Fallout 3 / James Schirmer -- The media-savvy ritual suicides : how the Heaven's Gate group co-opted institutional media and created a new tradition / Robert Glenn Howard.

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