1. HALEY WEBER
LIS201 OUTLINE
I’m sure it’ll be great
ecmoe@wisc.ed

2. INTRODUCTION OF THE BOOK AND AUTHOR
Information Please; Culture and Politics in the
Age of Digital Machines
(basic info about publishing)
Author: Mark Poster
(some facts)

3. MARK POSTER’S ACHIEVEMENTS
(where he went to school and such)

4. SUMMARY OF THE BOOK’S
AWESOME THINGS
Term “Information Please” Anecdote
-about telephone operators

5. SUMMARY OF THE BOOK’S
AWESOME THINGS CONT

6. MARK POSTER’S CONCLUSION

7. INTRODUCE THE PORTION OF THE BOOK
I’M FOCUSING ON
Cross culture sharing made possible by the network society.

8. NETWORK SOCIETY
EXPLANATION

9. EXAMPLES OF CROSS CULTURAL
SHARING
Osama Bin Laden and Bert (from sesame street) news story
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1594600.stm
(hopefully I’ll find a video)

10. WHAT ARE THE BOUNDARIES OF
‘THE NATION’
Some cultures use shared info that they don’t understand
“This interactivity changes cultures profoundly, mostly reducing their
autonomy. The Internet thus enables planetary transmissions of cultural
objects to cross cultural boundaries with little 'noise'.”
- this may cause cultural confusion though

11. EXAMPLE OF CULTURAL
CONFUSION
Example: fashion in china use English sayings that don’t mean anything
(2 pictures)
“the message does not always come across or get decoded”

12. OTHER SOURCES ABOUT CROSS
CULTURAL SHARING

13. CULTURAL INSULARITY

14. CULTURAL INSULARITY CONT
KFC, US commercial example

15. OTHER SOURCES ABOUT
CULTURAL INSULARITY

16. QUESTIONING OF CULTURAL
IDENTITY

17. NETWORK SOCIETY AND
CULTURAL IDENTITY

18. EXTRA SLIDE FOR WHERE I NEED
IT

19. CONCLUSION ABOUT CROSS
CULTURE COMMUNICATION

20. CONCLUSION