The net effect : romanticism, capitalism, and the internet /
This book about America's romance with computer communication looks at the Internet, not as a 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 inve...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
©2011.
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Colección: | Critical cultural communication.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "Self-motivating exhilaration": on the cultural sources of computer communication
- Romanticism and the machine: the formation of the computer counter-culture
- Missing the net: the 1980s, microcomputers, and the rise of neoliberalism
- Networks and the social imagination
- The moment of wired
- Open source, the expressive programmer, and the problem of property
- Conclusion: capitalism, passions, democracy.