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The Net Effect: Romanticism, Capitalism, and the Internet
Thomas Streeter
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Description for The Net Effect: Romanticism, Capitalism, and the Internet
Paperback.
2012 Honorable Mention from the Association of Internet Researchers for their Annual Best Book Prize
Outstanding Academic Title from 2011 by Choice Magazine
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814741160
SKU
V9780814741160
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99-50
About Thomas Streeter
Thomas Streeter is Professor of Sociology at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Selling the Air: A Critique of the Policy of Commercial Broadcasting in the United States.
Reviews for The Net Effect: Romanticism, Capitalism, and the Internet
The Net Effect makes a great contribution to our knowledge on the question of labor in Internet technology.
International Journal of Communciation
The Net Effect is an excellent resource for anyone reseraching the influence of society on technology.
CHOICE
& We are romantics even, and perhaps especially, in the face of high technologies, writes Thomas Streeter. ... Read more
International Journal of Communciation
The Net Effect is an excellent resource for anyone reseraching the influence of society on technology.
CHOICE
& We are romantics even, and perhaps especially, in the face of high technologies, writes Thomas Streeter. ... Read more