The Net Effect : Romanticism, Capitalism, and the Internet.

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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 invent...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Streeter, Thomas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : NYU Press, 2010.
Colección:Critical cultural communication.
Temas:
Computers and civilization.
Computers > Social aspects.
Information technology > Social aspects.
Internet > Social aspects.
Ordinateurs et civilisation.
Ordinateurs > Aspect social.
Technologie de l'information > Aspect social.
Internet > Aspect social.
Technology & Engineering > Telecommunications.
Computers and civilization
Computers > Social aspects
Information technology > Social aspects
Internet > Social aspects
Effect.
construction.
culture.
cultures.
influenced.
internet.
played.
political.
role.
social.
structure.
teases.
thought.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 f.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (232 pages).
ISBN:9780814708743
0814708749

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