Critique of Cyber Culture in DeLillo’s White Noise

Abstract

This thesis is concerned with how DeLillo‘s White Noise describes all the possible effects which youths‘ uncontrolled and uncritical engagement in the practice of cyber culture can produce. This bookexplores the interaction of the media and popular culture governs the forefront of the narrative. Aspects of consumer culture are scattered throughout the narrative. Babette‘s perception of created reality takes her to the path of infidelity. Gladney takes part in the shopping spree. He funnily seeks to invent the essence of his life via shopping fashion. Only the information is available. None of the characters tend to develop passion for true knowledge. They no longer bother to know the immediate. They are tempted to the mediated reality. Individuals are treated as breakable units beset with unacceptable facts. Mediated and digitally produced reality count a lot in the lives of Gladney, Babette, Bee and other children of Murray. Existing inability forces him to dissimulate his innermost faults and shortcomings. Inwardly he is trapped in the suffocating confines of life on Wall Street. To come out of his barren mercantile practices like digital mode of communication and encoding business codes, he develops fantasies.