Overview

This critical reader of 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, case studies, and discussions of online community, user inequalities, and governance. Within the larger issues of technological infrastructure, government policy and globalization, the work 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?

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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

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

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Greg Elmer is assistant professor of communication at Boston College.

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