The Modem World - A Prehistory of Social Media

This is a book about how the internet became social. The people who built and maintained dial-up bulletin board systems (BBSs) in the 1980s laid the groundwork for millions of others who would bring their lives online in the 1990s and beyond.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Kevin Driscoll is assistant professor in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. He is the coauthor (with Julien Mailland) of Minitel: Welcome to the Internet.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Kevin Driscoll
• Verlag: Yale University Press Ltd
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9780300248142
• ISBN: 978-0-300-24814-2
• Seiten: 328
• Abmessung: 160 mm x 240 mm x 23 mm
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Informatik, EDV; Media Studies, 20th Century, COMPUTERS / Internet / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, COMPUTERS / History, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, General and world history, Internet: general works, History of engineering & technology, Information technology: general issues, History of Computing, digital and information technologies