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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... activities of life , is itself a “ mundane ” ( in the sense of " worldly ” and quotidian ) , practical activity , an activity thoroughly en- meshed in the other practical activities that constitute the life of an indi- vidual or a ...
... activities of life , is itself a “ mundane ” ( in the sense of " worldly ” and quotidian ) , practical activity , an activity thoroughly en- meshed in the other practical activities that constitute the life of an indi- vidual or a ...
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... activity . Net use was channeled through high profile gateways constructed around search engines , or the sports , news , and entertainment sites of major cor- porations , attracting users by the vigorous cross - promotions on their ...
... activity . Net use was channeled through high profile gateways constructed around search engines , or the sports , news , and entertainment sites of major cor- porations , attracting users by the vigorous cross - promotions on their ...
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... activities of contemporary digital pirates than just the crim- inal delinquency with which they are charged by today's ... activity is today being exercised to restrict what the media corporations ostensibly promote , that is , the ...
... activities of contemporary digital pirates than just the crim- inal delinquency with which they are charged by today's ... activity is today being exercised to restrict what the media corporations ostensibly promote , that is , the ...
Contents
Disorganizing the New Technology | 3 |
A Critical History of the Internet | 27 |
EnablingDisabling | 49 |
Copyright | |
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