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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... struggle as a globally significant phenomenon . The following section examines how the Zapatistas adopted the Internet as a vehicle for political action in a struggle that they claim has been ongoing for over 500 years . ZAPATISTAS IN ...
... struggle as a globally significant phenomenon . The following section examines how the Zapatistas adopted the Internet as a vehicle for political action in a struggle that they claim has been ongoing for over 500 years . ZAPATISTAS IN ...
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... struggle " against subordination and exploitation from the Spanish conquest to the current PRI regime . The doc- ument explicitly declares war on the Mexican Army , called for the repudia- tion of former President Salinas , and demanded ...
... struggle " against subordination and exploitation from the Spanish conquest to the current PRI regime . The doc- ument explicitly declares war on the Mexican Army , called for the repudia- tion of former President Salinas , and demanded ...
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... struggle . " 80 Such insurgencies are characterized by their opponents as antiglobalization movements . But though some are driven by nationalisms , fundamentalisms , and other localized protectionisms , many others see themselves ...
... struggle . " 80 Such insurgencies are characterized by their opponents as antiglobalization movements . But though some are driven by nationalisms , fundamentalisms , and other localized protectionisms , many others see themselves ...
Contents
Disorganizing the New Technology | 3 |
A Critical History of the Internet | 27 |
EnablingDisabling | 49 |
Copyright | |
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