Curran / Fenton / Freedman Misunderstanding the Internet

2. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-44351-3
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 234 Seiten

Reihe: Communication and Society

The growth of the internet has been spectacular. There are now more than 3 billion internet users across the globe, some 40 per cent of the world’s population. The internet’s meteoric rise is a phenomenon of enormous significance for the economic, political and social life of contemporary societies.

However, much popular and academic writing about the internet continues to take a celebratory view, assuming that the internet’s potential will be realised in essentially positive and transformative ways. This was especially true in the euphoric moment of the mid-1990s, when many commentators wrote about the internet with awe and wonderment. While this moment may be over, its underlying technocentrism – the belief that technology determines outcomes – lingers on and, with it, a failure to understand the internet in its social, economic and political contexts.

Misunderstanding the Internet is a short introduction, encompassing the history, sociology, politics and economics of the internet and its impact on society. This expanded and updated second edition is a polemical, sociologically and historically informed guide to the key claims that have been made about the online world. It aims to challenge both popular myths and existing academic orthodoxies that surround the internet.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Curran, James

Fenton, Natalie

Freedman, Des

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Digital Lifestyle Internet, E-Mail, Social Media
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I Overview

Chapter 1 Reinterpreting the Internet, James Curran

Chapter 2 Rethinking Internet History, James Curran

Part II Political Economy of the Internet

Chapter 3 Web 2.0 and the Death of the Blockbuster Economy, Des Freedman

Chapter 4 Outsourcing Internet Regulation, Des Freedman

Part III Internet and Power

Chapter 5 Internet and Social Networking, Natalie Fenton

Chapter 6 Internet and Radical Politics, Natalie Fenton

Part IV Looking Forward

Chapter 7 Conclusion, James Curran, Des Freedman and Natalie Fenton

Über Autor(innen)

James Curran, Natalie Fenton and Des Freedman teach in the Department of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.