In recent years, the story of the internet, a decentralised, global communications network
mediated by the conjunction of computers and telecommunications, has been retold often …

This critical reader of original essays places the boom and bust years of the Internet in a
broad cultural context. Exploring the world of html, web browsers, cookies, online net guides …

This book is an impressive survey of our collective and cumulative understanding of the
evolution of digital communication systems and the Internet. Whilst the information societies …

The development of the internet is much more than a story of technological achievement: it is
about social change. It is not only a history of the accessibility of interconnected computers …

Unparalleled in human experience, the Internet, or simply the Net, is the code word for the
technosocial accident that gives large numbers of people the means by which they can …

The Internet has transformed the social relations that were once managed by the powers
that be. As a rapidly maturing communications technology, the Internet has brought people …

Technologies normally stabilize after an initial period during which many differing
configurations compete. Once stabilized, their social and political implications finally …

Communalist” vision of cyberspace as an independent society of consciousness. Turner
shows how the New Communalists, unlike the New Left during the 1960s and 1970s, turned …

Internet's value for the society has far exceeded its utility as a technical innovation that
facilitates information exchange. It constitutes another dimension of the human society …

The Web has been with us for less than a decade. The popular and commercial diffusion of
the Internet has been extraordinary-instigating and enabling changes in virtually every area …