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Net Loss : Internet Prophets, Private Profits, and the Costs to Community /
How has the Internet been changing our lives, and how did these changes come about? Nathan Newman seeks the answers to these questions by studying the emergence of the Internet economy in Silicon Valley and the transformation of power relations it has brought about in our new information age. Net Lo...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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University Park, Pa. :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
2002.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- How the federal government created the Internet, and how the Internet is threatened by the government's withdrawal
- Federal spending and the regionalizing of technology development
- Business cooperation and the business politics of regions in the information age
- Banks, electricity, and phones : technology, regional decline, and the marketization of fixed capital
- Local government up for bid : Internet taxes, economic development, and public information
- Conclusion : the death of community economics, or think locally, act globally.