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The Internet Myth: From the Internet Imaginary to Network Ideologies (Critical, Digital and Social Media Studies) - Tapa blanda

Bory, Paolo

 
9781912656752: The Internet Myth: From the Internet Imaginary to Network Ideologies (Critical, Digital and Social Media Studies)
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ISBN 10: 1912656752 ISBN 13: 9781912656752
Editorial: University of Westminster Press, 2020

Sinopsis

The Internet Myth retraces and challenges the myth laying at the foundations of the network ideologies – the idea that networks, by themselves, are the main agents of social, economic, political and cultural change. By comparing and integrating different sources related to network histories, this book emphasizes how a dominant narrative has extensively contributed to the construction of the Internet myth while other visions of the networked society have been erased from the collective imaginary. The book decodes, analyzes and challenges the foundations of the network ideologies looking at how networks have been imagined, designed and promoted during the crucial phase of the 1990s.

Three case studies are scrutinized so as to reveal the complexity of network imaginaries in this decade: the birth of the Web and the mythopoesis of its inventor; and the histories of two Italian networking projects, the infrastructural plan Socrate and the civic network Iperbole, the first to give free Internet access to citizens.

The Internet Myth thereby provides a compelling and hidden sociohistorical narrative in order to challenge one of the most powerful myths of our time.

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Acerca del autor

Paolo Bory is a postdoctoral researcher at the Polytechnic University of Milan and lecturer in Media Studies at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland. His research on media imaginaries, network histories and narratives of AI have been published in international journals such as New Media & Society, Convergence and Critical Studies in Media Communication. The Internet Myth is his first book.

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Editorial
University of Westminster Press
Año de publicación
2020
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1912656752
ISBN 13 
9781912656752
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Número de páginas
168
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