Revisiting the Y2K Bug Language Wars over Networking the Global Order  

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Best, Kirsty

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Television and New Media vol. 4 no. 3 (Agu. 2003), page 297–319.
Topik: information technology; discourse; computer networking; globalization; value
Fulltext: 297TVNM43.pdf (119.69KB)

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The Y2K bug was a global media event of the twentieth century, only to fade from view after an anticlimactic change of millennium. This article argues that a reexamination of the text of the Y2K bug illuminates the contemporary cultural construction of value in information and networking technologies. Through the examination of a broad range of media reports and articles, this article illustrates how a hegemonic discourse is creating scales of value that have a profound impact on resource allocation. However, the Y2K bug also illustrates how this discourse is subject to its own gaps in meaning, or internal dissociations, as well as to a variety of creative external attacks, including culture jamming.

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