Mark Poster is a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Irvine, where he taught in the History Department, the Department of Film and Media Studies, and the Critical Theory Emphasis. Some of his recent publications include Information Please: Culture and Politics in a Digital Age (Duke University Press, 2006), The Information Subject (G & B Arts International, 2001), What's the Matter with the Internet? (University of Minnesota Press, 2001), Cultural History and Postmodernity (Columbia University Press, 1997), The Second Media Age (Blackwell, 1995), and The Mode of Information (Chicago Press, 1990).