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The Net Effect: Romanticism, Capitalism, and the Internet - Couverture souple

Livre 3 sur 43: Critical Cultural Communication

Streeter, Thomas

 
9780814741160: The Net Effect: Romanticism, Capitalism, and the Internet
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0814741169 ISBN 13 : 9780814741160
Editeur : New York University Press, 2010

Synopsis

2012 Honorable Mention from the Association of Internet Researchers for their Annual Best Book Prize

Outstanding Academic Title from 2011 by Choice Magazine
This book about America's romance with computer communication looks at the internet, not as harbinger of the future or the next big thing, but as an expression of the times. Streeter demonstrates that our ideas about what connected computers are for have been in constant flux since their invention. In the 1950s they were imagined as the means for fighting nuclear wars, in the 1960s as systems for bringing mathematical certainty to the messy complexity of social life, in the 1970s as countercultural playgrounds, in the 1980s as an icon for what's good about free markets, in the 1990s as a new frontier to be conquered and, by the late 1990s, as the transcendence of markets in an anarchist open source utopia.

The Net Effect teases out how culture has influenced the construction of the internet and how the structure of the internet has played a role in cultures of social and political thought. It argues that the internet's real and imagined anarchic qualities are not a product of the technology alone, but of the historical peculiarities of how it emerged and was embraced. Finding several different traditions at work in the development of the internet--most uniquely, romanticism--Streeter demonstrates how the creation of technology is shot through with profoundly cultural forces--with the deep weight of the remembered past, and the pressures of shared passions made articulate.

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À propos de l'auteur

Thomas Streeter is Professor of Sociology at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Selling the Air: A Critique of the Policy of Commercial Broadcasting in the United States.

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Éditeur
New York University Press
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0814741169
ISBN 13 
9780814741160
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
240
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