Overview

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, the text includes the history of the Internet, interesting case studies and discussions on online community, user inequalities, and governance. Visit our website for sample chapters!

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Author:   Greg Elmer ,  Bram Dov Abramson ,  Marcus Breen ,  Alice Crawford
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions:   Width: 14.90cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.308kg
ISBN:  

9780742511323

ISBN 10:   0742511324
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   27 August 2002
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface: A Critical Primer for the Internet 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

Reviews

With focused breadth and critical depth, this timely volume will undoubtedly quicken our thinking and writing about this emerging field-one that has always understood itself in terms of speed and expansion. -- Briankle G. Chang, University of Massachusetts, author of Deconstructing Communication

With focused breadth and critical depth, this timely volume will undoubtedly quicken our thinking and writing about this emerging field--one that has always understood itself in terms of speed and expansion.--Briankle G. Chang

Author Information

Greg Elmer is assistant professor of communication at Boston College.

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