Keywords:
Information technology Social aspects
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Computers Social aspects
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Internet Social aspects
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Computers and civilization
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Information technology - Social aspects
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Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
Online-Ressource (ix, 221 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780814741153
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9780814741160
Series Statement:
Critical cultural communication v.32
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http://site.ebrary.com/lib/alltitles/docDetail.action?docID=10425199
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http://gbv.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=865340
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https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=865340
DDC:
303.48/33
Language:
English
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; 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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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
