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9780742511323

Critical Perspectives on the Internet

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  • ISBN13:

    9780742511323

  • ISBN10:

    0742511324

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-08-27
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

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!

Table of Contents

Preface: A Critical Primer for the Internet ix
Greg Elmer
Acknowledgments xiii
Part I: Critical Introductions
Disorganizing the ``New Technology''
3(24)
David Sholle
A Critical History of the Internet
27(22)
Brian Martin Murphy
Part II: Net Architecture
The Case of Web Browser Cookies: Enabling/Disabling Convenience and Relevance on the Web
49(14)
Greg Elmer
Surfing for Knowledge in the Information Society
63(26)
Richard Rogers
Andres Zelman
Part III: Rethinking Net Communities
The Myth of the Unmarked Net Speaker
89(16)
Alice Crawford
Digitizing and Globalizing Indigenous voices: The Zapatista Movement
105(24)
Donna M. Kowal
Part IV: Globalization and Governance
E-Capital and the Many-Headed Hydra
129(36)
Nick Dyer-Witheford
Convergence Policy: It's Not What You Dance, It's the Way You Dance It
165(18)
Marcus Breen
Internet Globalization and the Political Economy of Infrastructure
183(20)
Bram Dov Abramson
Index 203(12)
About the Contributors 215

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