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This book examines examples of controversy and contestation from the Internet, focusing on the political and technological dynamics at play. The cases cover networked gaming cultures, online education, surveillance, as well as the mutual shaping of digital technologies and civic life. This book was published as a special issue of The Information Society.

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Andrew Feenberg is Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology in the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University. He is author of Lukacs, Marx and the Sources of Critical Theory; Transforming Technology; Alternative Modernity, Questioning Technology; Heidegger and Marcuse: The Catastrophe and Redemption of History; Between Reason and Experience: Essays in Technology and Modernity. Norm Friesen is Canada Research Chair in E-Learning Practices at Thompson Rivers University. He is author of Re-Thinking E-Learning Research: Foundations, Methods and Practices, and The Place of the Classroom and the Space of the Screen: Relational Pedagogy and Internet Technology (forthcoming), and is co-editor of Phenomenology & Practice (www.phandpr.org).

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