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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... claim revolutionary effects for a technology , it is not simply these material factors that we are talking about ... claims for " new media " technologies go well beyond the claims tradi- tionally made for consumer products . We are told ...
... claim revolutionary effects for a technology , it is not simply these material factors that we are talking about ... claims for " new media " technologies go well beyond the claims tradi- tionally made for consumer products . We are told ...
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... claims form a narrative that is consistently reiter- ated through multiple channels and that tells a tale about the formation of an unprecedented form of community . Perhaps the boldest claim about this community is that all people ...
... claims form a narrative that is consistently reiter- ated through multiple channels and that tells a tale about the formation of an unprecedented form of community . Perhaps the boldest claim about this community is that all people ...
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... claim , as W. Mitchell has done , that , because of the disembodied , despatialized nature of the Internet in- terface , in cyberspace . " There is no such thing as a better address , and you cannot attempt to define yourself by being ...
... claim , as W. Mitchell has done , that , because of the disembodied , despatialized nature of the Internet in- terface , in cyberspace . " There is no such thing as a better address , and you cannot attempt to define yourself by being ...
Contents
Disorganizing the New Technology | 3 |
A Critical History of the Internet | 27 |
EnablingDisabling | 49 |
Copyright | |
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