Critical Perspectives on the Internet
Greg Elmer (Anthology Editor) , Bram Dov Abramson (Contributor) , Marcus Breen (Contributor) , Alice Crawford (Contributor) , Nick Dyer-Witheford (Contributor) , Greg Elmer (Contributor) ,
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Critical Perspectives on the Internet
Greg Elmer (Anthology Editor) , Bram Dov Abramson (Contributor) , Marcus Breen (Contributor) , Alice Crawford (Contributor) , Nick Dyer-Witheford (Contributor) , Greg Elmer (Contributor) ,
- Textbook
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Part 2 Part I: Critical Introductions
Chapter 3 Disorganizing the "New Technology"
Chapter 4 A Critical History of the Internet
Part 5 Part II: Net Architecture
Chapter 6 The Case of Web Browser Cookies: Enabling/Disabling Convenience and Relevance on the Web
Chapter 7 Surfing for Knowledge in the Information Society
Part 8 Part III: Rethinking Net Communities
Chapter 9 The Myth of the Unmarked Net Speaker
Chapter 10 Digitizing and Globalizing Indigenous Voices: The Zapatista Movement
Part 11 Part IV: Globalization and Governance
Chapter 12 E-Capital and the Many-Headed Hydra
Chapter 13 Convergence Policy: It's Not What You Dance, It's the Way You Dance It
Chapter 14 Internet Globalization and the Political Economy of Infrastructure
Product details
| Published | 04 Sep 2002 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 232 |
| ISBN | 9780742575738 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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