Critical Perspectives on the InternetGreg Elmer Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 - 217 pages This critical reader of original essays places the boom and bust years of the Internet in a broad cultural context. Exploring the world of html, web browsers, cookies, online net guides, portals, and Internet service providers, this text includes the history of the Internet, interesting case studies and discussions on online community, user inequalities, and governance. Within the larger issues of technological infrastructure, government policy, and globalization, Critical Perspectives on the Internet highlights both the limitations and possibilities of everyday Internet use. Does the net function as a space for radical social and political change? For challenging established media? What opportunities lie in the cracks and crevasses of net structure? With its critical agenda for Internet studies, this text is a valuable tool for upper-level courses on the Internet, online communication, computer-mediated communication, communication and information technologies, and media and politics. |
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... United States , Canada , and around the world . The first wave of networks , constructed between 1986 and 1990 , were the result of initial steps taken by universities ( usually after prodding from a few activist professors ) . The idea ...
... United States , Canada , and around the world . The first wave of networks , constructed between 1986 and 1990 , were the result of initial steps taken by universities ( usually after prodding from a few activist professors ) . The idea ...
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... United States . GeoNet was " sympathetic to the idea of providing a service to non- commercial users . ' " 49 A group of NGO volunteers formed Poptel in London under the aegis of GeoNet to serve not - for - profit entities . By the end ...
... United States . GeoNet was " sympathetic to the idea of providing a service to non- commercial users . ' " 49 A group of NGO volunteers formed Poptel in London under the aegis of GeoNet to serve not - for - profit entities . By the end ...
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... United States , but also Canada , Western Europe , Australia , New Zealand ) . " Is that your final an- swer ? " becomes a shortcut for the metaphor of the Internet in a speed dial world , where the image of highly concentrated ...
... United States , but also Canada , Western Europe , Australia , New Zealand ) . " Is that your final an- swer ? " becomes a shortcut for the metaphor of the Internet in a speed dial world , where the image of highly concentrated ...
Contents
Disorganizing the New Technology | 3 |
A Critical History of the Internet | 27 |
EnablingDisabling | 49 |
Copyright | |
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