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Author Streeter, Thomas, author.

Title The net effect : romanticism, capitalism, and the internet / Thomas Streeter.

Imprint New York : New York University Press, ©2011.

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 219 pages).
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Critical cultural communication
Critical cultural communication.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents "Self-motivating exhilaration": on the cultural sources of computer communication -- Romanticism and the machine: the formation of the computer counter-culture -- 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 Print version record.
Summary 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.
Subject Computers and civilization.
Computers -- Social aspects.
Information technology -- Social aspects.
Internet -- Social aspects.
Ordinateurs et civilisation.
Ordinateurs -- Aspect social.
Technologie de l'information -- Aspect social.
Internet -- Aspect social.
COMPUTERS -- Information Technology.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Telecommunications.
Computers and civilization
Computers -- Social aspects
Information technology -- Social aspects
Internet -- Social aspects
Neoliberalismus
Das Romantische
Kapitalismus
Kulturkritik
Computer
Informationstechnik
Internet
Sozialer Wandel
Informationstechnik. (DE-601)106286609
Sozialer Wandel. (DE-601)106079697
Computer.
Informationstechnik.
Internet.
Gesellschaft.
Other Form: Print version: Streeter, Thomas. Net effect. New York : New York University Press, ©2011 9780814741153 (DLC) 2010024294 (OCoLC)630468250
ISBN 9780814741177 (electronic bk.)
0814741177 (electronic bk.)
9780814708743 (electronic bk.)
0814708749 (electronic bk.)
9780814741153
0814741150
9780814741160
0814741169
Standard No. AU@ 000050212445
CHNEW 000608575
DEBBG BV040885246
DEBBG BV042965436
DEBSZ 37274110X
DEBSZ 42166875X
GBVCP 799437298
NZ1 14248166

 
    
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