Description
Book SynopsisThis critical reader of essays places the boom and bust years of the Internet in a broad cultural context. Exploring the world of HTML, Web browsers, cookies, online Net guides, portals and ISPs, this text includes the history of the Internet, case studies, and discussions of online community.
Trade ReviewWith focused breadth and critical depth, this timely volume will undoubtedly quicken our thinking and writing about this emerging field—one that has always understood itself in terms of speed and expansion. -- Briankle G. Chang, University of Massachusetts, author of Deconstructing Communication
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Preface: A Critical Primer for the Internet Part 2 Part I: Critical Introductions Chapter 3 Disorganizing the "New Technology" Chapter 4 A Critical History of the Internet Part 5 Part II: Net Architecture Chapter 6 The Case of Web Browser Cookies: Enabling/Disabling Convenience and Relevance on the Web Chapter 7 Surfing for Knowledge in the Information Society Part 8 Part III: Rethinking Net Communities Chapter 9 The Myth of the Unmarked Net Speaker Chapter 10 Digitizing and Globalizing Indigenous Voices: The Zapatista Movement Part 11 Part IV: Globalization and Governance Chapter 12 E-Capital and the Many-Headed Hydra Chapter 13 Convergence Policy: It's Not What You Dance, It's the Way You Dance It Chapter 14 Internet Globalization and the Political Economy of Infrastructure
