The Viagra files: The Web as anticipatory medium

Prometheus: Critical Studies in Innovation

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 195-212

  Rogers, Richard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Anticipatory medium; Collaborative filtering; Knowledge itineraries; Viagra; Web

Indexed keywords

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 0042304957     PISSN: 08109028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08109020308125     Document Type: Article

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10. Harper's Magazine, january 2000, pp. 57-68
11. Maureen Dowd in the New York Times, reprinted in the International Herald Tribune, 16 December 1999.
12. M. Chalmers, 'Cookies are not enough: tracking and enriching Web activity with a recommender system', in R. Rogers (ed.), Preferred Placement: Knowledge Politics on the Web, Jan van Eyck Editions, Maastricht, 2000, pp. 99-111.
13. Tim Berners-Lee and Mark Fishcetti, Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its Inventor, HarperCollins, San Francisco, 1999;
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16. Marc Berg, Rationalizing Medical Work. Decision Support Techniques and Medical Practices, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1997.
17. R. Rogers and A. Zelman, 'Surfing for knowledge in the information society', in G. Elmer (ed.), Critical Perspectives on the Internet, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD, 2002, pp. 63-86.
18. H. Nissenbaum and L. Introna, 'The public good vision of the Internet and the politics of search engines', in Rogers (ed.), op. cit., pp. 25-47.
19. M. Specter, 'Search and deploy: the race to build a better search engine', The New Yorker, 29 May 2000, pp. 88-100.
20. Y. Y. Leshem, 'Viagra extends cuts vaselife', Greenhouse Management and Production, 19, 10, October 1999.
21. http://www.pfizer.at/ed/pat/behandlung/Viagra.htm,
22. De Volkskrant Magazin, 24 March 2001
23. http://www.tabloid.net/1998/08/31/Viagra_980831.html,
24. http://www.viagra.com,
25. http://www.globalchange.com/Viagranews2.htm,
26. http://www.asianfools.com/print.php?sid=92;
27. http://www.Viagra.com/consumers/about/faq.asp?n=0,
28. http://www.fda-.gov/fdac/features/2000/100_online.html,
29. http://www.usrf.org/breakingnews/Viagra_interactions.html,