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The Net Effect - Romanticism, Capitalism, and the Internet (Paperback)
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The Net Effect - Romanticism, Capitalism, and the Internet (Paperback)
Series: Critical Cultural Communication
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2012 Honorable Mention from the Association of Internet Researchers
for their Annual Best Book Prize Outstanding Academic Title from
2011 by Choice Magazine 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 invention.
In the 1950s they were imagined as the means for fighting nuclear
wars, in the 1960s as systems for bringing mathematical certainty
to the messy complexity of social life, in the 1970s as
countercultural playgrounds, in the 1980s as an icon for what's
good about free markets, in the 1990s as a new frontier to be
conquered and, by the late 1990s, as the transcendence of markets
in an anarchist open source utopia. The Net Effect 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. It argues that the internet's real and
imagined anarchic qualities are not a product of the technology
alone, but of the historical peculiarities of how it emerged and
was embraced. Finding several different traditions at work in the
development of the internet-most uniquely, romanticism-Streeter
demonstrates how the creation of technology is shot through with
profoundly cultural forces-with the deep weight of the remembered
past, and the pressures of shared passions made articulate.
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