The Net Effect : : Romanticism, Capitalism, and the Internet /

The Net Effect : : Romanticism, Capitalism, and the Internet / / Thomas Streeter.

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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 invent...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Streeter, Thomas,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Critical Cultural Communication ; 32
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. “Self-Motivating Exhilaration”
  • 2. Romanticism and the Machine
  • 3. Missing the Net
  • 4. Networks and the Social Imagination
  • 5. The Moment of Wired
  • 6. Open Source, the Expressive Programmer, and the Problem of Property
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author

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