Re Inventing The Internet

Author : Andrew Feenberg,Norm Friesen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789460917349

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(Re)Inventing the Internet by Andrew Feenberg,Norm Friesen Pdf

Although it has been in existence for over three decades, the Internet remains a contested technology. Its governance and role in civic life, education, and entertainment are all still openly disputed and debated. The issues include censorship and network control, privacy and surveillance, the political impact of activist blogging, peer to peer file sharing, the effects of video games on children, and many others. Media conglomerates, governments and users all contribute to shaping the forms and functions of the Internet as the limits and potentialities of the technologies are tested and extended. What is most surprising about the Internet is the proliferation of controversies and conflicts in which the creativity of ordinary users plays a central role. The title, (Re)Inventing the Internet, refers to this extraordinary flowering of agency in a society that tends to reduce its members to passive spectators. This collection presents a series of critical case studies that examine specific sites of change and contestation. These cover a range of phenomena including computer gaming cultures, online education, surveillance, and the mutual shaping of digital technologies and civic life.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Research
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Computers
ISBN : PSU:000048687164

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Reinventing the Internet by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Research Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Research
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Computers
ISBN : LOC:00091524004

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Reinventing the Internet by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Research Pdf

Author : Janet Abbate
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000-07-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262261333

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Inventing the Internet by Janet Abbate Pdf

Janet Abbate recounts the key players and technologies that allowed the Internet to develop; but her main focus is always on the social and cultural factors that influenced the Internet's design and use. Since the late 1960s the Internet has grown from a single experimental network serving a dozen sites in the United States to a network of networks linking millions of computers worldwide. In Inventing the Internet, Janet Abbate recounts the key players and technologies that allowed the Internet to develop; but her main focus is always on the social and cultural factors that influenced the Internets design and use. The story she unfolds is an often twisting tale of collaboration and conflict among a remarkable variety of players, including government and military agencies, computer scientists in academia and industry, graduate students, telecommunications companies, standards organizations, and network users. The story starts with the early networking breakthroughs formulated in Cold War think tanks and realized in the Defense Department's creation of the ARPANET. It ends with the emergence of the Internet and its rapid and seemingly chaotic growth. Abbate looks at how academic and military influences and attitudes shaped both networks; how the usual lines between producer and user of a technology were crossed with interesting and unique results; and how later users invented their own very successful applications, such as electronic mail and the World Wide Web. She concludes that such applications continue the trend of decentralized, user-driven development that has characterized the Internet's entire history and that the key to the Internet's success has been a commitment to flexibility and diversity, both in technical design and in organizational culture.

Author : Janet Abbate
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000-07-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 0262511150

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Inventing the Internet by Janet Abbate Pdf

Janet Abbate recounts the key players and technologies that allowed the Internet to develop; but her main focus is always on the social and cultural factors that influenced the Internet's design and use. Since the late 1960s the Internet has grown from a single experimental network serving a dozen sites in the United States to a network of networks linking millions of computers worldwide. In Inventing the Internet, Janet Abbate recounts the key players and technologies that allowed the Internet to develop; but her main focus is always on the social and cultural factors that influenced the Internets design and use. The story she unfolds is an often twisting tale of collaboration and conflict among a remarkable variety of players, including government and military agencies, computer scientists in academia and industry, graduate students, telecommunications companies, standards organizations, and network users. The story starts with the early networking breakthroughs formulated in Cold War think tanks and realized in the Defense Department's creation of the ARPANET. It ends with the emergence of the Internet and its rapid and seemingly chaotic growth. Abbate looks at how academic and military influences and attitudes shaped both networks; how the usual lines between producer and user of a technology were crossed with interesting and unique results; and how later users invented their own very successful applications, such as electronic mail and the World Wide Web. She concludes that such applications continue the trend of decentralized, user-driven development that has characterized the Internet's entire history and that the key to the Internet's success has been a commitment to flexibility and diversity, both in technical design and in organizational culture.

Author : Norm Friesen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:798209010

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(Re)Inventing the Internet by Norm Friesen Pdf

Although it has been in existence for over three decades, the Internet remains a contested technology. Its governance and role in civic life, education, and entertainment are all still openly disputed and debated. The issues include censorship and network control, privacy and surveillance, the political impact of activist blogging, peer to peer file sharing, the effects of video games on children, and many others. Media conglomerates, governments and users all contribute to shaping the forms and functions of the Internet as the limits and potentialities of the technologies are tested and extended. What is most surprising about the Internet is the proliferation of controversies and conflicts in which the creativity of ordinary users plays a central role. The title, (Re)Inventing the Internet, refers to this extraordinary flowering of agency in a society that tends to reduce its members to passive spectators. This collection presents a series of critical case studies that examine specific sites of change and contestation. These cover a range of phenomena including computer gaming cultures, online education, surveillance, and the mutual shaping of digital technologies and civic life.

Author : Ian F. McNeely,Lisa Wolverton
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780393337716

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Reinventing Knowledge: From Alexandria to the Internet by Ian F. McNeely,Lisa Wolverton Pdf

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Author : Dr. Mu. Subrahmanian, Dr. S. Meenakumari, R. Vasudevan
Publisher : Archers & Elevators Publishing House
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9789383241071

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Challenges in Re-inventing the Business Process by Dr. Mu. Subrahmanian, Dr. S. Meenakumari, R. Vasudevan Pdf

Author : Christian Fuchs,Marisol Sandoval
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781135019273

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Critique, Social Media and the Information Society by Christian Fuchs,Marisol Sandoval Pdf

In times of global capitalist crisis we are witnessing a return of critique in the form of a surging interest in critical theories (such as the critical political economy of Karl Marx) and social rebellions as a reaction to the commodification and instrumentalization of everything. On one hand, there are overdrawn claims that social media (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc) have caused uproars in countries like Tunisia and Egypt. On the other hand, the question arises as to what actual role social media play in contemporary capitalism, crisis, rebellions, the strengthening of the commons, and the potential creation of participatory democracy. The commodification of everything has resulted also in a commodification of the communication commons, including Internet communication that is today largely commercial in character. This book deals with the questions of what kind of society and what kind of Internet are desirable, how capitalism, power structures and social media are connected, how political struggles are connected to social media, what current developments of the Internet and society tell us about potential futures, how an alternative Internet can look like, and how a participatory, commons-based Internet and a co-operative, participatory, sustainable information society can be achieved.

Author : Graeme Turner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317381471

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Re-Inventing the Media by Graeme Turner Pdf

Re-Inventing the Media provides a highly original re-thinking of media studies for the contemporary post-broadcast, post-analogue, and post-mass media era. While media and cultural studies has made much of the changes to the media landscape that have come from digital technologies, these constitute only part of the transformations that have taken place in what amounts of a reinvention of the media over the last two decades. Graeme Turner takes on the task of re-thinking how media studies approaches the whole of the contemporary media-scape by focusing on three large, cross-platform, and transnational themes: the decline of the mass media paradigm, the ongoing restructuring of the relations between the media and the state, and the structural and social consequences of celebrity culture. By addressing the fact that the reinvention of the media is not simply a matter of globalising markets or the take-up of technological change, Turner is able to explore the more fundamental movements and widespread trends that have significantly influenced the character of what the contemporary media have become, how it is structured, and how it is used. Re-Inventing the Media is a must-read for both students and scholars of media, culture and communication studies.

Author : Graeme Turner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317381464

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Re-Inventing the Media by Graeme Turner Pdf

Re-Inventing the Media provides a highly original re-thinking of media studies for the contemporary post-broadcast, post-analogue, and post-mass media era. While media and cultural studies has made much of the changes to the media landscape that have come from digital technologies, these constitute only part of the transformations that have taken place in what amounts of a reinvention of the media over the last two decades. Graeme Turner takes on the task of re-thinking how media studies approaches the whole of the contemporary media-scape by focusing on three large, cross-platform, and transnational themes: the decline of the mass media paradigm, the ongoing restructuring of the relations between the media and the state, and the structural and social consequences of celebrity culture. By addressing the fact that the reinvention of the media is not simply a matter of globalising markets or the take-up of technological change, Turner is able to explore the more fundamental movements and widespread trends that have significantly influenced the character of what the contemporary media have become, how it is structured, and how it is used. Re-Inventing the Media is a must-read for both students and scholars of media, culture and communication studies.

Author : Michael Nielsen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691202846

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Reinventing Discovery by Michael Nielsen Pdf

"Reinventing Discovery argues that we are in the early days of the most dramatic change in how science is done in more than 300 years. This change is being driven by new online tools, which are transforming and radically accelerating scientific discovery"--

Author : Tessa Morris-Suzuki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317461159

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Re-inventing Japan by Tessa Morris-Suzuki Pdf

This text rethinks the contours of Japanese history, culture and nationality. Challenging the mythology of a historically unitary, even monolithic Japan, it offers a different perspective on culture and identity in modern Japan.

Author : John J. Donovan
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business
ISBN : 0137456212

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The Second Industrial Revolution by John J. Donovan Pdf

To compete in the 21st century, businesses must reinvent the way they operate, and the way they reach and serve customers. This book shows managers how to use Internet technology to do precisely that.The Second Industrial Revolution begins by outlining the need for dramatic business change, and demonstrating how Internet technologies are ideally suited to support managers as they make these changes. Learn how to do business on the Internet, securely and profitably -- and how to use today's intranet technologies to dramatically improve the way your organization communicates internally. Walk through case studies to see how businesses are using Internet technology to reinvent themselves right now. Consider today's Internet technology landscape, the strategies of leading players in this market, and the likely evolution of the Internet. Finally, learn how to initiate the cultural changes your organization will need to succeed with Internet technologies -- and how to see those changes through.All managers, in both the private and public sector.

Author : Jean-Noël Kapferer
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0749435933

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(Re)inventing the Brand by Jean-Noël Kapferer Pdf

Are the 'classical' rules of brand management obsolete? These rules were created over 50 years ago in the United States under very different market conditions and realities. Since then, textbooks and current thinking have been replete with the same simplistic models of branding, which are looking incresingly out of date.