Ensorcelment
The Web can
be understood as a space of "magic" in two
senses. First,
as a cultural technology, it forms an arena
where personal
and social
identities
are staged, negotiated, and transformed through
digital communication
and representation.
As a cultural technology
of magic,
therefore, the Web can be
understood
as a technology that is
simultaneously an instrument
and an
activity -- through which
self and
world is cast into sense
and thereby
transforms "being"
in the world. This
first
sense
of cultural
technology
as magic yields a second...
