Pictures of a Floating World. The Philadelphia Inquirer Seeks a Community Calling in Cyberspace

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As The Philadelphia Inquirer attempts to find a suitable web structure to advance a strategy of breaking news a??firsts,a?? hyper-locality, and virtual community news hubbing in cyberspace, this article explores the theoretical and practical contradictions the Inquirer faces as it reinvents its news and visual imprint. The article also compares the Internet and its growing, untethered news readership(s) to the a??floating worlda?? of Japanese Ukiyo-e artwork. Such is socially engaging, bourgeois, and hypercommunicative with a minimal use of text.View full textDownload full textRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; var addthis_config = {"data_track_addressbar":true,"ui_click":true}; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15551393.2010.515441