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PROGRAMMING THE APOCALYPSE:
RECOMBINANT NARRATIVE IN CYBERSPACE
by
Dino Enrico Cardone
__________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(COMMUNICATION)
December 2007
Copyright 2007 Dino Enrico Cardone
Object Description
| Title | Programming the apocalypse: recombinant narrative in cyberspace |
| Author | Cardone, Dino Enrico |
| Author email | cardone@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Communication |
| School | Annenberg School for Communication |
| Date defended/completed | 2007-10-10 |
| Date submitted | 2007 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2007-10-30 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | O'Leary, Stephen |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Goodnight, Thomas Pryon, Larry |
| Abstract | This study analyses the impact of the World Wide Web and digital technologies on the practice of apocalyptic rhetoric in cyberspace at beginning of the 21st century. As a mass medium and subset of the Internet, whose qualities include data exchangeability, nonlinear hyperlinking, and a relative lack of gatekeepers, the Web, the author contends, lends itself not only to more networked reasoning styles, but to mytho-logics. The Web as both a virtual repository for human knowledge and a universal publishing platform provides apocalyptically-minded individuals with the discursive power and resources to reason mythologically, programming synthetic fusions of mythos and logos in the creation of apocalyptic narratives drawn from a variety of traditions. Such "recombinant narratives" the author finds, provide individuals with a sense of cosmic and personal meaning by acting as symbolic theodicies. Moreover, the author contends that the phenomena of data exchangeability, narrative programmability, and narrative syncretism are further evidenced in apocalyptically inflected neo-orthodoxies emerging on the Web which make apocalyptic scenarios intelligible in terms of digital technologies, even while denying or demonizing those same technologies. |
| Keyword | 911; topoi; argumentation; alternative media; web; mass media; gatekeeping; digital media; apocalypse; internet; rhetoric |
| Coverage date | circa 2000 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m895 |
| Rights | Cardone, Dino Enrico |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Cardone-20071030 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume23/etd-Cardone-20071030.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Full text | PROGRAMMING THE APOCALYPSE: RECOMBINANT NARRATIVE IN CYBERSPACE by Dino Enrico Cardone __________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (COMMUNICATION) December 2007 Copyright 2007 Dino Enrico Cardone |
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