Date of Award
2002
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Scodari, Christine
Abstract
This thesis emerges from the realization of the paradox that lies beneath online technology which promises to change the way we think, yet penetrates our lives by employing a systematic simulation of our most basic cognitive skills. In order to understand this paradox in terms of space and time, the research examines the ways in which time and space are communicated on two disparate Internet websites. The assembled data are analyzed using an interdisciplinary approach that leads to a textual analysis based in theories of semiotics. The study finds that the Internet is fundamentally framed in spatial terms. The space bias is ideologically significant; commercial websites use it to produce a textual environment that assimilates the user and, thus, enables the promotion of conspicuous consumption.
Extent
125 p.
Recommended Citation
Dushi, Nava., "Communicating space and time perception and ideology in online texts" (2002). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009. 357.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_5/357
Identifier
FADT12905
Comments
Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 40-05, page: 1097.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2002.|Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 40-05, page: 1097.