3 quotes from Information Please

1) "One can never be absolutely certain, then, of the identity of one's interlocutor. While not unprecedented, the ethical issue of identity in online exchanges is new in its systematicity. The interface of the computer, coupled with the ease of communicating through the network, renders identity in question in every case. Messages sent through the Net are always suspect. What is the ethical value of this unrelenting suspicion?" (Poster 151)

2) "In the world consisting of electrons and light pulses, the virtual space of the Internet, narrative and narrator are impossible to specify. The hypertext of the Internet and the Web evacuates all meaning from the term narrative" (Poster 135). But does it, really? And in all cases? Aren't weblogs narratives?

3) "At a second level of television's place in the larger culture, it is possible to recuperate narrative theory. In John Rowe's view, 'Television is merely participating in the larger rhetoric of an economy of representation, in which the principal aim is not the marketing of commodoties but the production of narratives capable of being retold by their viewers' (Rowe 1994, 101)" (Poster 136).