Critical Perspectives on the Internet

Herausgeber: Elmer, Greg

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 160mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9780742511323
• ISBN-10: 0742511324
• Artikelnr.: 21632087

Autorenporträt

Edited by Greg Elmer - Contributions by Bram Dov Abramson; Marcus Breen; Alice Crawford; Nick Dyer-Witheford; Greg Elmer; Donna M. Kowal; Brian Martin Murphy; Richard Rogers; David Sholle and Andrés Zelman

Inhaltsangabe

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