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Auteur(s) : Streeter, Thomas (19..-.... ; sociologue)
Titre(s) : The net effect [Texte imprimé] : romanticism, capitalism, and the internet / Thomas Streeter
Publication : New York : New York university press, c2011
Description matérielle : ix, 221 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection : Critical cultural communication
Lien à la collection : Critical cultural communication
Comprend : "Self-motivating exhilaration": on the cultural sources of computer communication
; Romanticism and the machine: the formation of the computer counterculture ; Missing
the net: the 1980s, microcomputers, and the rise of neoliberalism ; Networks and
the social imagination ; The moment of wired ; Open source, the expressive programmer,
and the problem of property ; Conclusion: capitalism, passions, democracy.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-211) and index
"This book about America's romance with computer communication looks at the Internet,
not as a 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 nucelar 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." -- cover
Sujet(s) : Culture numérique
Ordinateurs -- Société
Technologie de l'information -- Société
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780814741160 (pbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0814741169 (pbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN
9780814741153. - ISBN 0814741150
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb426339269
Notice n° :
FRBNF42633926
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