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Digital Countercultures and the Struggle for Community (The Information Society Series)
Jessa Lingel
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Description for Digital Countercultures and the Struggle for Community (The Information Society Series)
Hardcover. Series: The Information Society Series. Num Pages: 192 pages, 9 b&w illus. BIC Classification: JFM; UBW; UDBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. .
How countercultural communities have made the Internet meet their needs, subverting established norms of digital technology use. Whether by accidental keystroke or deliberate tinkering, technology is often used in ways that are unintended and unimagined by its designers and inventors. In this book, Jessa Lingel offers an account of digital technology use that looks beyond Silicon Valley and college dropouts-turned-entrepreneurs. Instead, Lingel tells stories from the margins of countercultural communities that have made the Internet meet their needs, subverting established norms of how digital technologies should be used. Lingel presents three case studies ... Read more
How countercultural communities have made the Internet meet their needs, subverting established norms of digital technology use. Whether by accidental keystroke or deliberate tinkering, technology is often used in ways that are unintended and unimagined by its designers and inventors. In this book, Jessa Lingel offers an account of digital technology use that looks beyond Silicon Valley and college dropouts-turned-entrepreneurs. Instead, Lingel tells stories from the margins of countercultural communities that have made the Internet meet their needs, subverting established norms of how digital technologies should be used. Lingel presents three case studies ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The MIT Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
The Information Society Series
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780262036214
SKU
V9780262036214
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About Jessa Lingel
Jessa Lingel is an Assistant Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania.
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