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9780803975194: Cultures of the Internet: Virtual Spaces, Real Histories, Living Bodies
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ISBN 10: 0803975198 ISBN 13: 9780803975194
Editorial: Sage Publications UK, 1996

Sinopsis

The Internet is here but have we caught up with all the implications for culture and everyday life? This collection of original articles on the development of computer-mediated communications brings together many of the most accomplished writers on the Net and cyberspace.

Cultures of Internet examines the arrival of e-mail and online discussion groups, and considers the prospect of an `online world′ - a playground for virtual bodies in which identities are flexible, swappable and disconnected from real-world bodies. The book traces the rise of virtual conviviality and how it supplements the physical encounters between actors in public spaces that are abandoned to the homeless.

The book is distinguished by a critical and social tone. It presents systematic descriptions of the development of the Internet, its history in the military-industrial complex, the role of state policies leading, for example, to the creation of Minitel, and the building of information `superhighways′. It also explores the development of this technology as a commercialized leisure form and a forum for underground political organization and critique.

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Acerca del autor

Rob Shields lectures in Culture and Communication at Lancaster University and maintains links with Carleton University, where he is Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology. He is author of Places on the Margin (1990) and Lifestyle Shopping (1993), and co-editor of Social Engineering: The Technics of Change (1995).

CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE WESTERN HEMISPHERE

David Chaney Durham University

Sadie Plant University of Birmingham

Mike Featherstone Goldsmiths, UK

Andre Lemos Universite Paris V

De la contraportada

'Interrogated in well-researched case studies... the question of identity is placed solidly in the material world.... among the better contributions to the publishing boom of the last two years... very useful in undergraduate teaching' - Sociology

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Editorial
Sage Publications UK
Año de publicación
1996
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0803975198
ISBN 13 
9780803975194
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
208
Editor
Shields Rob
Contacto del fabricante
no disponible
Persona responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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