Cultures of the Internet

Cultures of the Internet
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Publisher : SAGE
Total Pages : 130
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ISBN-10 : 1446225909
ISBN-13 : 9781446225905
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Book Synopsis Cultures of the Internet by : Professor Robert M Shields

Download or read book Cultures of the Internet written by Professor Robert M Shields and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1996-02-22 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Internet is here but have we caught up with all the implications for culture and everyday life? This collection of original articles on the development of computer-mediated communications brings together many of the most accomplished writers on the Net and cyberspace. Cultures of Internet examines the arrival of e-mail and online discussion groups, and considers the prospect of an online world' - a playground for virtual bodies in which identities are flexible, swappable and disconnected from real-world bodies. The book traces the rise of virtual conviviality and how it supplements the physical encounters between actors in public spaces that are abandoned to the homeless. The book is distinguished by a critical and social tone. It presents systematic descriptions of the development of the Internet, its history in the military-industrial complex, the role of state policies leading, for example, to the creation of Minitel, and the building of information superhighways'. It also explores the development of this technology as a commercialized leisure form and a forum for underground political organization and critique.


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