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9780803975194 Academic Inspection Copy
  • Cultures of the Internet

  • Virtual Spaces, Real Histories, Living Bodies
  • This collection of articles brings together many writers on the Net and Cyberspace in one volume. This volume examines the arrival of E-mail and online discussion groups, and considers the prospects for an "online world" - a playground for virtual bodies in which identities are flexible, swappable and disconnected from real-world bodies. The book: systematically describes the development of the Internet, including its history in the military-industrial complex, and the role of state policies leading, for example, to the creation of Minitel and the building of information superhighways; traces the rise of virtual conviviality and how it appears about to replace physical encounters between actors in public places, which will become the sole preserve of the homeless; and explores the development of this technology as a commercialized leisure form and a forum for underground political organization and critique.
  • ISBN-13: 9780803975194 (Paperback)
  • Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS
    Imprint: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
  • Price:
    AUD $120.00
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  • Local release date: 13/03/2012
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Categories: Cultural studies [JFC]Ethical & social aspects of IT [UBJ]Internet guides & online services [UDB]
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