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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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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 "Self-Motivating Exhilaration": On the Cultural Sources of Computer Communication; 2 Romanticism and the Machine: The Formation of the Computer Counterculture; 3 Missing the Net: The 1980s, Microcomputers, and the Rise of Neoliberalism; 4 Networks and the Social Imagination; 5 The Moment of Wired; 6 Open Source, the Expressive Programmer, and the Problem of Property; Conclusion: Capitalism, Passions, Democracy; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z; About the Author.

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