How culture became a field of struggle over meaning in France: the appropriation of elements from advertising, journalism, and other sources to serve political ends in art, film, and the activities of the French left, culminating in the upheavals of May 1968.

Peter Wolcott is Associate Professor in the Departmentof Information Systems and Quantitative Analysisat the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He isalso a member of the Mosaic Group, which hasbeen conducting research on the global diffusion ofthe Internet since 1995.