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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... called " the Valletri Agreement ” and it created a new institution that would guide NGOs in the operation of international computer networking . The new coalition body was named Interdoc . Signers of the Valletri Agreement included IDOC ...
... called " the Valletri Agreement ” and it created a new institution that would guide NGOs in the operation of international computer networking . The new coalition body was named Interdoc . Signers of the Valletri Agreement included IDOC ...
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... called GreeNet . A concept of building one world network exclusively for NGO / activist use got people from the IGC , GreeNet , and Interdoc talking . During May of 1990 Interdoc organized a meeting held in Amsterdam as a forum where ...
... called GreeNet . A concept of building one world network exclusively for NGO / activist use got people from the IGC , GreeNet , and Interdoc talking . During May of 1990 Interdoc organized a meeting held in Amsterdam as a forum where ...
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... called a net- worked " Matrix " ( Quarterman and Carl - Mitchell 1994 ) . Until 1997 , UUCP— Unix - to - Unix Copy Protocol , a peer - to - peer store - and - forward protocol dis- tributed with the Unix operating system - reached more ...
... called a net- worked " Matrix " ( Quarterman and Carl - Mitchell 1994 ) . Until 1997 , UUCP— Unix - to - Unix Copy Protocol , a peer - to - peer store - and - forward protocol dis- tributed with the Unix operating system - reached more ...
Contents
Disorganizing the New Technology | 3 |
A Critical History of the Internet | 27 |
EnablingDisabling | 49 |
Copyright | |
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