i-iv -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- I. Texts, Hypertexts and Narratology -- Towards a Narratology of Holistic Texts. The Textual Theory of Hypertext -- Hypertextuality -- Multimedia Literature, "Exploratory Games" and their Hypertextuality -- II. Semiotic and Philosophical Approaches -- Media as Meaningful Gestures. Phenomenology, Inner Time Consciousness and the Possibilities of Media Philosophy -- Media and Languages. From Nelson Goodman's Philosophy of Languages to a Scheme for a Semiotic-Philological Theory of Communication -- Aspects of Multimedial Communication -- The Philosophical Foundations of the Work of Film Director Jean-Luc Godard -- III. Aspects of Media and Technology Criticism -- The Structural Constraint of "Concision" as it is Used in the Discourse Style of American Commercial Broadcasting -- Cybersex: Α Desire for Disembodiment. On the Meaning of the Human Being in Cyber Discourse -- The Internet, "Data Highways" and the Information Society A Comment on the Rhetoric of the Electronic Sublime -- Rock Discourse, Mass Mediations and Cultural Identity. The Imaginary England of Pop-Poet Stephen Patrick Morrissey -- IV. Media Cultural Developments -- Internet and New Media in Russia. Some Historical and Contemporary Developments of Telecommunications and Information Technologies in Russia -- Seeing You, Seeing Me in the Global, Virtual Space. Tomorrow's Working, Learning and Leisure Environment -- More than Sweaters and Shocking Pictures. On the Corporate Philosophy and Communications Strategy of Benetton -- Name Index -- Subject Index -- 397-398