Review essay: The work of rhetoric in the age of digital dissemination

CREATING A NEW CIVILIZATION: THE POLITICS OF THE THIRD WAVE. By Alvin and Heidi Toffler. Atlanta: Turner Publishing, 1995; pp. 112. $14.95; paper $7.95.

DATA TRASH: THE THEORY OF THE VIRTUAL CLASS. By Arthur Kroker and Michael A. Weinstein. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994; pp. 160. $ 16.95.

AN ECOLOGY OF EMBODIED INTERACTION: TURN‐TAKING AND INTERACTIONAL SYNTAX IN FACE‐TO‐FACE ENCOUNTERS. By Leslie Hope Jarmon. Diss. University of Texas at Austin, 1996. CD‐ROM. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1996.

THE ELECTRONIC DISTURBANCE. By the Critical Arts Ensemble. New York: Autonomedia, 1994; pp. 85. $7.00.

THE ELECTRONIC WORD: DEMOCRACY, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE ARTS. By Richard A. Lanham. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993; pp. xv + 285. $24.95; paper $14.95; 3.5‐inch diskette $19.95 (Macintosh).

FLAME WARS: THE DISCOURSE OF CYBERCULTURE. Edited by Mark Dery. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994; pp. iv + 349. $39.95; paper $13.95.

HYPERTEXT: THE CONVERGENCE OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICAL THEORY AND TECHNOLOGY. By George P. Landow. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992; pp. 256. $48.50; paper $16.95.

HYPERTEXT IN HYPERTEXT. By George P. Landow. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. Two 3.5‐inch diskettes, user's guide. $39.95 (MS‐Windows, Macintosh).

LIFE AFTER TELEVISION: THE COMING TRANSFORMATION OF MEDIA AND AMERICAN LIFE. By George Gilder. New York: W.W. Norton, 1994; pp. 216. $11.00.

THE ROAD AHEAD. Rev. ed. By Bill Gates with Nathan Myhrvold and Peter Rinearson. New York: Penguin, 1996; pp. xx + 332. Paper (includes CD‐ROM) $15.95.

THE VIRTUAL COMMUNITY: HOMESTEADING ON THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER. By Howard Rheingoid. New York: HarperPerennial, 1994; pp. ix + 185. $13.00.

THE WAR OF DESIRE AND TECHNOLOGY AT THE CLOSE OF THE MECHANICAL AGE. By Allucquere Rosanne Stone. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995; pp. 212. $25.00.