Cached : Decoding the Internet in Global Popular Culture / Stephanie Ricker Schulte.
2013
HM851 .S34 2016
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Cached : Decoding the Internet in Global Popular Culture / Stephanie Ricker Schulte.
ISBN
9780814788684
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2013]
Copyright
©2013
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English
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In English.
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1 online resource : 2 black and white illustrations
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10.18574/nyu/9780814708668.001.0001 doi
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HM851 .S34 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
302.231
Summary
"This is the most culturally sophisticated history of the Internet yet written. We can't make sense of what the Internet means in our lives without reading Schulte's elegant account of what the Internet has meant at various points in the past 30 years."-Siva Vaidhyanathan, Chair of the Department of Media Studies at The University of VirginiaIn the 1980s and 1990s, the internet became a major player in the global economy and a revolutionary component of everyday life for much of the United States and the world. It offered users new ways to relate to one another, to share their lives, and to spend their time-shopping, working, learning, and even taking political or social action. Policymakers and news media attempted-and often struggled-to make sense of the emergence and expansion of this new technology. They imagined the internet in conflicting terms: as a toy for teenagers, a national security threat, a new democratic frontier, an information superhighway, a virtual reality, and a framework for promoting globalization and revolution.Schulte maintains that contested concepts had material consequences and helped shape not just our sense of the internet, but the development of the technology itself. Cached focuses on how people imagine and relate to technology, delving into the political and cultural debates that produced the internet as a core technology able to revise economics, politics, and culture, as well as to alter lived experience. Schulte illustrates the conflicting and indirect ways in which culture and policy combined to produce this transformative technology.
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Critical Cultural Communication ; ; 23
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The "WarGames Scenario"
2 The Internet Grows Up and Goes to Work
3 From Computers to Cyberspace
4 Self-Colonizing eEurope
5 Tweeting into the Future
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The "WarGames Scenario"
2 The Internet Grows Up and Goes to Work
3 From Computers to Cyberspace
4 Self-Colonizing eEurope
5 Tweeting into the Future
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author