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Open Standards and the Digital Age - History, Ideology, and Networks (Paperback)
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Open Standards and the Digital Age - History, Ideology, and Networks (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise
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How did openness become a foundational value for the networks of
the twenty-first century? Open Standards and the Digital Age
answers this question through an interdisciplinary history of
information networks that pays close attention to the politics of
standardization. For much of the twentieth century, information
networks such as the monopoly Bell System and the American
military's Arpanet were closed systems subject to centralized
control. In the 1970s and 1980s however, engineers in the United
States and Europe experimented with design strategies to create new
digital networks. In the process, they embraced discourses of
'openness' to describe their ideological commitments to
entrepreneurship, technological innovation, and participatory
democracy. The rhetoric of openness has flourished - for example,
in movements for open government, open source software, and open
access publishing - but such rhetoric also obscures the ways the
Internet and other 'open' systems still depend heavily on
hierarchical forms of control.
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