The Net Effect - Romanticism, Capitalism, and the Internet

Klappentext Teases out how culture has influenced the construction of the internet and how the structure of the internet has played a role in cultures of social and political thought Zusammenfassung Looks at the internet! not as harbinger of the future or the next big thing! but as an expression of the times. This book demonstrates that our ideas about what connected computers are for have been in constant flux since their invention. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents; Acknowledgments vii; Introduction 1; 1. "Self-Motivating Exhilaration": On the Cultural Sources of Computer Communication 27; 2. Romanticism and the Machine: The Formation of the Computer Counter-Culture 72; 3. Missing the Net: the 1980s! Microcomputers and the Rise of Neoliberalism 113; 4. Networks and the Social Imagination 152; 5. The Moment of Wired 195; 6. Open Source! the Expressive Programmer and the Problem of Property 226; Conclusion: Capitalism! Passions! Democracy 275; Notes 308; Index; About the Author 363

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Streeter
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.12.2010
• EAN: 9780814741153
• ISBN: 978-0-8147-4115-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Critical Cultural Communicatio; Critical Cultural Communication
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries